Preface -- Constructing political membership and worthiness -- Introduction -- The changing value and meaning of citizenship -- Newcomers and noncitizens -- Statelessness and elusive political membership -- Forced displacement and broken ties -- Irregular human movement and the creation of liminal spaces -- Marginalized nations and minorities -- Nomadic peoples and alternate conceptions of space -- Indigenous nations and tribal sovereignty -- Second-class citizens in the "land of the free" -- Creating inclusive forms of membership -- Conveying the problem(s) and representing personhood -- Actualizing the ideal of functioning citizenship.
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