This text links political theory with analysis of the emerging practical consequences for citizenship of migration and minority formation. It uses international examples drawn from original research to address these issues from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Globalization creates new challenges for citizenship: boundaries are blurred and nation state powers eroded. Millions of people have multiple citizenship, millions more lack citizenship of their country of residence. Cultural heterogeneity is escalating. There are increasing numbers of citizens who do not belong. This undermines the nation state as the central site of democracy. New approaches are needed, which take account of complex identities and transnational belonging, and which allow for democratic control of power at all its proliferating levels.

Preface - The Crisis of Citizenship - Theories of Citizenship - Immigration, Minority Formation and Racialization - Becoming a Citizen - Being a Citizen - Ethnic Mobilization and New Political Subjects - The End of National Belonging - Globalization and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific Region - Social Capital and the New Civics - Postscript: Citizenship or Chaos - Bibliography