This chapter explores how international migration has reconceptualised the notion of membership, in that the demos nowadays is no longer confined to the territorial borders of nation-states. Rather, it stretches beyond them, through a cobweb of transnational networks created by individuals belonging to several polities. Citizenship, as an articulation of this belonging, moves in a direction that will eventually allow individuals to draw membership rights from multiple polities, and international human rights institutions.

Publication details and link to source: Jelena Dzankic, ‘Migration, Citizenship and Post National Membership’, Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, 2015.