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V. Bader , "Citizenship and Exclusion," Political Theory 23 (1995): 211-46, 214.

See, e.g., R. Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). I offer a critique of the ethnic/ civic nation dichotomy in "The Myth of the Civic Nation," in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. R. Beiner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998), 103-18.

J. Stevens , Reproducing the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).

J. Carens , "Aliens and Citizens," in Theorizing Citizenship, ed. R. Beiner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), 229-54, 230. Stevens (p. 19) ups the ante and compares the disabilities created by birthright citizenship to those associated with slavery, not just feudalism.

A. Pagden , "Cosmopolitanism, and the Legacy of European Imperialism," Constellations 7 (2000): 3-22, 20.