Reflections based on the seminar series I convened at IRiS with Katherine Tonkiss
Katherine Tonkiss and Nando Sigona
In recent decades, a significant transformation in the meanings, practices and experiences of membership in contemporary Western democracies has taken place. These transformations have challenged traditional conceptions of state membership which have typically assumed the existence of a nation-state, with a burgeoning line of scholarship challenging the significance of the nation-state in determining membership and endowing rights. This literature argues that recent trends in globalisation, human rights and multiculturalism have made state borders less important.
In this context, several questions emerge about the interplay between forms of contemporary membership, migration governance, and the politics of belonging:
- What is the position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration and emigration states?
- How can the nexus between human mobility, immigration control and citizenship be best conceived?
- How can we resolve the tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights; and the intersection of ‘race’…
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