ABSTRACT
One of the pressing concerns in the vast scholarly literature on citizenship to emerge in the past decade is the effect of globalization on the institutions and practices of citizenship. The proliferation of plural citizenships, or plural nationalities, implicates fundamental questions about the nature and location of citizenship and about the character and future of the nation-state system as well. The idea that multiple nationalities are an expression of citizenship's new, postnational mode has become somewhat commonplace in recent discussions on the current condition of citizenship. This chapter reflects upon and assesses this particular interpretation of plural nationality. It contends that "postnationality" in this context is meant to convey at least two separate, though sometimes overlapping, claims: one concerning a perceived decline of state sovereignty; the other concerning an asserted rise of the transnational subject.
