ABSTRACT
This chapter explores to what extent our world is truly transnational, that is, whether or not we have transcended a world-system of nation-states. It examines to what extent it is possible to develop a new articulation between nationality and citizenship such that the differentiation between citizens' and immigrants' rights is transcended. The chapter focuses at the ways in which certain social practices can provide the grounds to develop a transnational civil society where immigrants and nationals enjoy the same rights and participate as equals in the political community of citizens. The term "transnational" to refer both to a theoretical paradigm and to those social groups and set of practices that transcend and, to a certain extent, disrupt the symbolic and territorial boundaries of the nation-state creating a new social field that can be neither reduced to the geopolitical context of the nation-state nor can it be expanded to the global sphere.
