States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory? This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following "activist citizens" across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur. Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration.

Preface Chapter 1: Of those whose acts traverse frontiers Act 1: Of treason: WikiLeaks Act 2: Of rage: Rachel Corrie Act 3: Of disobedience: conscientious or civil? Chapter 2: 'We, the people' Act 4: Of defense: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Act 5: Of censoring: the Golden Shield Project Act 6: Of espionage: Stuxnet Act 7: Of assassination: drones Act 8: Of writing: Banksy Act 9: Of solidarity: Strangers into Citizens Chapter 3: 'We, the connected' Act 10: Of identification: We are all Khaled Said Act 11: Of hacking: LulzSec Act 12: Of defiance: No One Is Illegal Act 13: Of staging: Climate Camp Chapter 4: Enacting citizenship Act 14: Of speech: Waging Peace Act 15: Of fury: Mariyam Manike Chapter 5: Citizens without frontiers Act 16: Of declaration: 'We, the Roma Nation' Act 17: Of resistance: International Solidarity Movement Act 18: Of sharing: Open Rights Group Chapter 6: Emancipating (acts of) citizenship Act 19: Of enfranchisement: If the World Could Vote Act 20: Of music: Barenboim without words Bibliography Index