The reasons
behind the emergence of citizenship studies
are no doubt associated with those broader
conditions defined as ‘postmodernization’
and ‘globalization’ along with their concrete
manifestations such as the reconfiguration
of classes, the emergence of new international
government regimes, new rationalities
of government, new regimes of
accumulation of different forms of capital,
as well as new social movements and their
struggles for recognition and redistribution.