ABSTRACT
This chapter investigate the ways in which citizens are being made ‘irregular’ through abandonment and thereby removed from the rights associated with state membership. It involves an examination of what Vicki Squire calls the ‘irregular enactment and experience of irregularity’. To better illustrate the political stakes involved with the contested processes of irregular citizenship, the chapter focuses on Abdelrazik’s struggle to return to Canada from his forced exile in Sudan. It illustrates the ways in which other Canadian citizens contested this process of irregularization and the creative ways in which they attempted to self-irregularize their own so-called ‘regular citizenship’ as a way to demonstrate their solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik, and pressure the government to repatriate him to Canada. Abdelrazik is a prime example of someone whose Canadian citizenship has become irregularized. His citizenship was not unmade in the formal sense of being revoked; there was never any question that Abdelrazik was who he said he was: a naturalized Canadian citizen.
