Political and cultural boundaries rarely coincide, forcing citizenship beyond the nation-state

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Marco Martiniello and Stephen May address these issues, though from rather different angles. Martiniello’s account is organized around the need to rethink the boundaries of citizenship in societies that are not only multicultural but have evolved beyond the everyday notions of citizenship framing the well-known work of T. H. Marshall, among others. Drawing extensively on academic and policy debates in North America and Europe, Martiniello insists on the need to see citizenship as evolving in directions that take us beyond the narrow boundaries of the nation-state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 645 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Citizenship is decoupling from nation-state boundaries under globalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 835; EU citizenship was the first juridical attempt at citizenship beyond the nation-state — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 837; Secular citizenship depends on a national personality it cannot shed (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Citizenship is decoupling from the nation-state as political and cultural borders diverge. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 835
• Multicultural citizenship requires moving beyond nation-state boundaries #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 645