Globalizing Citizenship (Paperback)

The events of 9/11 and its aftermath exposed and enhanced tensions
between the global capitalist system and the territorial nation-state.
Governments and policy-makers more than ever struggle to govern
populations and manage cross-border traffic without building new
barriers to trade and commerce. What does citizenship mean in an era of
heightened globalization and enhanced security? Is it in crisis?

In "Globalizing Citizenship, " Kim Rygiel explores these
questions by examining border and detention policies in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia as part of a larger
politics of citizenship, one that preceded 9/11. Building on
Foucault's concept of biopolitics, she argues that citizenship is
becoming a globalizing regime to govern mobility and access to rights
and resources as nations in the global North harmonize border and
detention policies, outsource state functions and power to
international organizations and private companies, and rely on
technologies to discipline the individual biological body.

This theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded study of
border controls and detention practices reveals that the new mobility
regime is not only deepening boundaries based on race, class, and
gender, it is causing Western nations to embrace a more technocratic,
depoliticized understanding of citizenship.

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