ABSTRACT
Unhyphenated noncitizenship provides an analytical tool for understanding the mechanisms connecting apparently different sorts of individual-State relationships. This chapter looks in particular at how an activated noncitizenship far from a State could feed into an individual's relationship to that State at its border, and how it may be continuous with her/is noncitizen relationship with that same State in situ. In one sense, Marshall Islands citizens are not vulnerable in terms of their presence in the key State of their noncitizenship. They are allowed to live in the United States without visas or permits. A noncitizen relationship was activated with the tests themselves. The US rendered the Bikinians vulnerable in their most basic need to be somewhere. The chapter sketches one of the most famous river-sharing initiatives – that which is known as the Mekong River Commission.
