ABSTRACT
The idea of sexual citizenship once named a progressively inclusionary future in which the state and society respond to sexually marginalised subjects’ demands. Although young people may have formal citizenship status in their nations of birth, youth are transitional subjects, becoming-adults and, hence, becoming-citizens to be granted the rights. Citizen rights and responsibilities, then, are a spatio-temporal domain, something that is to be entered into later in life. Given that the state is an ambiguous site of citizenship that regulates more than it grants rights to youth, it is crucial to examine multiple sites of living and subject formation as scenes of citizenship, sexual and otherwise. Public space and the public sphere are fundamentally adult spaces to which youth have less, or differential, access. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
