Citizenship is decoupling from the nation-state as political and cultural borders diverge.

Evidence

The predominance of the nation-state in which citizenship historically developed has been seriously challenged over the past decades. Therefore, the exclusive location of citizenship within the cultural and geographical borders of the nation-state is increasingly problematic (Turner, 1993). In a global world in which political boundaries and cultural boundaries very rarely coincide, citizenship can be expected to develop beyond the nation-state. The idea is not new. Immanuel Kant, for example, imagined a global citizenship based on cosmopolitan institutions and laws. The question is: how is a citizenship beyond the nation-state going to develop? What are the various projects of postnational citizenship? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 835

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kant’s cosmopolitan citizenship is a thread worth pulling — his actual argument in Perpetual Peace and how postnational theorists now lean on it.
• XREF: Parallels Seyla Benhabib’s work on cosmopolitanism and citizenship, and the growing literature on denizenship and non-citizen rights. — connects to: Citizenship is decoupling from nation-state boundaries under globalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 835