ABSTRACT
This chapter is about how citizenship gets reproduced and who can reproduce citizens. The most obvious way that citizens are reproduced is through human reproduction. The state has been very involved in who can reproduce through laws regarding sexual practices and behaviors including marriage and who can parent. Sex, marriage, and procreation are a means of controlling the sexual norm and hegemonic citizenship. Foucault (1978) unpacks sexuality as discursively (socially) constructed as a means to transfer and consolidate power (p. 103), both social norms and political/legal norms reinforce this power construct. The other way citizenship is reproduced and controlled is through immigration and naturalization. The last section of this chapter will look at immigration, naturalization, and denaturalization. In short, this chapter will explore how citizenship reproduction is controlled.
