ABSTRACT
Dramatic shift s in the volume and character of global migration are rewriting the content, boundaries, and pathways between citizenship and noncitizenship. States and international institutions engaged in migration management have responded with restrictive policies of noncitizen exclusion and persecution, while noncitizens themselves and civil society actors have sometimes run counter to this global lockdown, through claims-making and by enacting substantive citizenship. Th ese processes are occurring at diff erent scales, animated by diverse institutional actors, and framed by competing understandings of membership; they point to the increasing signifi cance of noncitizenship, and legal status more generally, both as a dimension of global social inequality and of global political struggle.
