ABSTRACT
Citizenship is a mechanism for allocating rights and claims through political membership. In the past two centuries or so, citizenship has been nested in nation-states. Globalization is a package of transnational flows-of people, production, investment, information, ideas, and authority. As exchange intensifies across borders, such globalization changes the nature of citizenship. Globalization has put some flows out of the reach of states, putting rights at risk, but also created new levels of membership and rights claims. Among the changes it has wrought, globalization coincides with a universal, deterritorialized, and postnational human rights regime.
