Offers an analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. This work moves from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship.

He argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world. A major new work by a renowned theorist, "We, the People of Europe?" offers a far-reaching alternative to the usual framing of multicultural debates in the United States while also engaging with these debates.

PREFACE vii
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At the Borders of Europe 1
2
Homo nationalis: An Anthropological Sketch of the Nation-Form 11
Droit de cite or Apartheid? 31
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Citizenship without Community? 51
5
Europe after Communism 78
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World Borders, Political Borders 101
7
Outline of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence 115
8
Prolegomena to Sovereignty 133
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Difficult Europe: Democracy under Construction 155
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Democratic Citizenship or Popular Sovereignty? Reflections on Constitutional Debates in Europe 180
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Europe: Vanishing Mediator? 203
NOTES 237
INDEX 283