ABSTRACT

This concluding chapter begins with a taking stock of the discordant acts and irreverent figures of citizenship. It briefly discusses some directions in which more positive and creative enactments of irregularity are taking place. The chapter provides a new angle from which to reassess what we have learned about irregular citizenship. Irregular citizenship is not a singular identity. There are multiple forms of irregular citizenship. The fundamental questions about space, sovereignty, and borders have to be critically interrogated in the context of historical and ongoing colonial displacements of indigenous peoples in settler states. Citizenship is a potential exception to an otherwise critical consensus that imported colonial concepts are morally and politically bankrupt categories and inadequate to describe the social and political worlds of indigenous people.