Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization

摘要: American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship mostly about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of identity. But globalization is detaching from location. What used define was rooted space. Now one can be anywhere and an American, politically culturally. Against that backdrop, it becomes difficult draw boundaries human community meaningful way. Longstanding notions democratic are becoming obsolete, even we cling them. Beyond charts trajectory shows how unsustainable face globalization. Peter J. Spiro describes law once reflected shaped national character. explores histories birthright citizenship, naturalization, dual those legal regimes helped reinforce otherwise fragile on shifting global landscape, status become increasingly divorced any sense actual ground. As bonds dissipate, membership nation-state less meaningful. rights obligations distinctive now trivial. Naturalization requirements relaxed, embraced, entrenched-developments all irreversible. Loyalties, meanwhile, moving transnational communities defined many different ways: by race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation. These communities, boldly argues, replacing connected people nation-state, with profound implications future governance. Learned, incisive, sweeping scope, offers provocative look at changing very definition who where belong.