This book engages the intense relationship between citizenship and security in modern politics. It focuses questions of citizenship upon security analysis in order to critically evaluate how political being is and can be constituted in relation to securitising practices.

1. Introduction: Security and Citizenship Xavier Guillaume and Jef Huysmans 2. Citizenship and Securitising: Interstitial Politics Jef Huysmans and Xavier Guillaume Part I: Changing Citizenship Regimes 3. Liberating Irregularity: No Borders, Temporality, Citizenship Peter Nyers 4. Two Regimes of Rights? Engin F. Isin 5. Toward Global Citizenship Practice? Antje Wiener Part II: Insecure State-Citizen Relations 6. Marketing Security Matters: Undermining De-Securitizazion through Acts of Citizenship Anna Leander 7. The Possible and Legitimate: Security and the Individualization of Citizenship Practices Ákos Kopper 8. Internal Control and Claims of Rights: Undocumented Immigrants and Local Politics Flora Burchianti Part III: Crafting Political Community and Nationalism 9. Diasporas, Security, Citizenship Francesco Ragazzi 10. Curbing Marriages of Convenience? Female Labour Migrants from Post-Socialist Countries, Patriarchal Domination, and the 2003 Biopolitical Securitization of Turkish Citizenship Sandrine Berteaux and Firat Bozçali 11. Recrafting Political Community Angharad Closs Stephens Part IV: Democracy in Action in Times of Insecurity 12. The Right to Protect and the Right to Protection, and How Democracies balance them Yagil Levy 13. Muslims' Integration in Switzerland: Securitizing Citizenship, Weakening Democracy? Matteo Gianni

Xavier Guillaume is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Jef Huysmans is Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK.