ABSTRACT
Mobility and travel are important signifiers of citizenship but, for many people, citizenship is most closely identified with locality and community:
while nation-states may be where the formal standing as citizen is vested, it is largely through localities that the horizontal bonds of citizenship operate to create identification with the ‘we’, as in ‘we the people’. This has been a particularly influential narrative in the United States.
(Staeheli 2005: 196–7; emphasis added)