Aoileann Ní Mhurchú is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of three areas: citizenship studies, international migration and contemporary political and philosophical thought.

An ambitious contribution to ‘critical citizenship studies’ – where the author herself places the work alongside the oeuvre of Étienne Balibar, Engin Isin and RBJ Walker, the book’s main intellectual influences – shifting our thinking back to the ontological foundations of ‘citizen’ … the book will have achieved its highest aim if all those working on migration and citizenship from various disciplinary perspectives take account of and engage with the challenge of understanding ‘ambiguous’ forms of citizenship.

• IntroductionExploring The Citizenship Debate: The Sovereign Citizen-SubjectA Lens: The 2004 Irish Citizenship ReferendumTrapped in the Citizenship Debate: Sovereign Time and SpaceInterrogating Sovereign Politics: An Alternative Citizen-SubjectChallenging the Citizenship Debate: Beyond State Sovereign Time and SpaceTraces rather than Spaces of Citizenship: Retheorising the Politics of CitizenshipConclusionBibliography

Aoileann Ní Mhurchú is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of three areas: citizenship studies, international migration and contemporary political and philosophical thought.

An ambitious contribution to ‘critical citizenship studies’ – where the author herself places the work alongside the oeuvre of Étienne Balibar, Engin Isin and RBJ Walker, the book’s main intellectual influences – shifting our thinking back to the ontological foundations of ‘citizen’ … the book will have achieved its highest aim if all those working on migration and citizenship from various disciplinary perspectives take account of and engage with the challenge of understanding ‘ambiguous’ forms of citizenship.

• IntroductionExploring The Citizenship Debate: The Sovereign Citizen-SubjectA Lens: The 2004 Irish Citizenship ReferendumTrapped in the Citizenship Debate: Sovereign Time and SpaceInterrogating Sovereign Politics: An Alternative Citizen-SubjectChallenging the Citizenship Debate: Beyond State Sovereign Time and SpaceTraces rather than Spaces of Citizenship: Retheorising the Politics of CitizenshipConclusionBibliography

Aoileann Ní Mhurchú is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of three areas: citizenship studies, international migration and contemporary political and philosophical thought.

An ambitious contribution to ‘critical citizenship studies’ – where the author herself places the work alongside the oeuvre of Étienne Balibar, Engin Isin and RBJ Walker, the book’s main intellectual influences – shifting our thinking back to the ontological foundations of ‘citizen’ … the book will have achieved its highest aim if all those working on migration and citizenship from various disciplinary perspectives take account of and engage with the challenge of understanding ‘ambiguous’ forms of citizenship.

• IntroductionExploring The Citizenship Debate: The Sovereign Citizen-SubjectA Lens: The 2004 Irish Citizenship ReferendumTrapped in the Citizenship Debate: Sovereign Time and SpaceInterrogating Sovereign Politics: An Alternative Citizen-SubjectChallenging the Citizenship Debate: Beyond State Sovereign Time and SpaceTraces rather than Spaces of Citizenship: Retheorising the Politics of CitizenshipConclusionBibliography