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In this chapter, I will argue that neoliberalism and globalization are radically reshaping the terrain of citizenship in a way that particularly challenges our understandings of how citizenship is constructed and the sites in which it is claimed. I suggest that dominant approaches to citizenship as shaped in the neoliberal model are producing ‘thin’ versions of the concept, in which citizens are treated as residuals to other categories, be they the market, the state, ‘democracy’, or even ‘civil society’.