ABSTRACT
This chapter inquires into the shadowy side of citizenship, where there is a kind of inclusion that is politically and legally subordinate but no less real or consequential, and forms of belonging that are debased and abject but nonetheless substantial. The citizenship and alienage alike signify socio-political and juridical identities that are intrinsically spatialized, configured always in relation to the space of a territorially defined state, as delineated by its borders. The militarization and ostensible fortification of borders prove to be much more reliable for enacting a strategy of capture than to function as mere technologies of exclusion. In short, mediating the limits between its necropolitical and biopolitical imperatives, sovereign power is always quintessentially engaged in acts of border-making, border-guarding, and border preservation. The shadows of labyrinthine world of borders are the multifarious bordered socio-political identities of the globe's denizens – citizens, refugees, and migrants alike.
