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is a kind of politicized intimacy whereby, in return for cultural, legal, and military security, people are asked to love their country and to recognize certain stories, events, experiences, practices, and ways of life as related to the core of who they are, their public status, and their resemblance to other people.

Many institutional and social practices are aimed at inducing a visceral linkage of personal identity with nationality. In the United States, this process has often involved the orchestration of fantasies about the promise of the state and the nation to cultivate and protect a consensually recognized ideal of the 'good life'... in return for cultural, legal, and military security, people are asked to love their country and to recognize certain stories, events, experiences, practices, and ways of life as related to the core of who they are, their public status, and their resemblance to other people. This training in politicized intimacy has served as a way of turning political boundaries into visceral, emotional, and seemingly hardwired responses of 'insiders' to 'outsiders.'

is a kind of sorting which inherently excludes others and marks them as foreign, alien, and undeserving of rights.

citizenship inherently excludes others and marks them as foreign, alien, and undeserving of rights. However, because 'sovereignty has been frayed' amid unprecedented transnational migration, she suggests that new opportunities have emerged to implement a human right agenda of international justice'

is a relation among strangers who learn to feel it as a common identity based on shared historical, legal, or familial connection to a geopolitical space.

At the same time, citizenship is a relation among strangers who learn to feel it as a common identity based on shared historical, legal, or familial connection to a geopolitical space. (41)

is an abstract idea on behalf of which people engage in personal and political acts, from cheating on taxes to pledging allegiance to fomenting revolutions.

Citizenship is the practical site of a theoretical existence, in that it allows for the reproduction of a variety of kinds of law in everyday life. It is an abstract idea on behalf of which people engage in personal and political acts, from cheating on taxes to pledging allegiance to fomenting revolutions. (42)

is, for the Greeks, not something national, but simply a member of an elite class in the greek city who was said to be capable of self-governance and therefore of the legal and military governance of the city.

Although we tend to think of citizenship as something national, originally the citizen was simply a certain kind of someone who lived in a Greek city: a member of an elite class who was said to be capable of self-governance and therefore of the legal and military governance of the city. (41)

is, importantly, an ordinary space of activity that many people occupy without thinking much about it, as the administration of citizenship is usually delegated to the political sphere and only periodically worried over during exceptional crises or the election season.

It is also, importantly, an ordinary space of activity that many people occupy without thinking much about it, as the administration of citizenship is usually delegated to the political sphere and only periodically worried over during exceptional crises or the election season. (42)

is most simply put, to have a standing within the law (this is often called formal citizenship).

Most simply, citizenship refers to a standing within the law (this is often called formal citizenship)... jus soli citizenship allots citizenship to people born within the geographical territory, and jus sanguinis awards citizenship by way of a parental inheritance. (41)

is not only determined by legal definitions of inviduals vis-a-vis the state, but also by extra-legal elements between fellow citizens which, in everyday speech, we acknowledge with terms such as first-class and second-class citizenship.

Citizenship includes not only legal definitions or documents (which one either does or does not have), but also the extra-legal (vernacular) elements of citizenship that we recognize in ordinary language phrases and which acknowledge matters of degree, such as first-class versus second-class citizenship. In a democracy one wants to minimize second-class citizenship and aspire to first-class citizenship for all. Such a notion affirms that citizenship happens both in relations of citizens to the state and in relations among fellow citizens, whether they be in neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, workplaces, or voluntary associations. These questions of citizenship include a sense of belonging, of having a voice and being heard.' (http://goo.gl/gwgwyh)

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