ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two perspectives which are not commonly intertwined: the discussions on citizenship in transnational studies and the emerging debate on citizenship education in educational studies and policy. It outlines an initial conceptual approach that allows for a deeper analysis of citizenship matters in both transnational studies and educational studies. The chapter argues for relaunching the approaches toward citizenship within an agency-oriented perspective. Transnational studies have made one thing clear: citizenship can no longer be exclusively conceived of as a status or a bundle of rights which describe the position of an individual in relation to a polity or a nation-state, bounded community. Mainstream research on political participation and citizenship education shows a nationalist-institutional bias toward the issue of democracy. It perceives the agency of people merely as something individual that is fully contained by a naturalized set of institutions labeled as "democratic" within a nation-state.
