http://enquirer.sg/2009/09/16/singapore-citizenship-a-national-credit-card/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://enquirer.sg/2009/09/16/singapore-citizenship-a-national-credit-card/comment-page-1/#comment-6648 just rambling » Singapore Citizenship: A National Credit Card? Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:55:23 +0000 http://enquirer.sg/?p=714#comment-6648 <p>[...] A short op-ed I wrote after attending the NTU Student Unions’ Ministerial Forum 2009 for The Enquirer who kindly provided me tickets for the event. Read it here. [...]</p> [...] A short op-ed I wrote after attending the NTU Student Unions’ Ministerial Forum 2009 for The Enquirer who kindly provided me tickets for the event. Read it here. [...]

]]> http://enquirer.sg/2009/09/16/singapore-citizenship-a-national-credit-card/comment-page-1/#comment-6456 kyl Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:33:28 +0000 http://enquirer.sg/?p=714#comment-6456 <p>A nicely used metaphor for citizenship in a transnational era, but I find the point about a nation being "nothing more than an imagined community" rather erroneous. Citizenship is an issue beyond just the benefits and goodies. Becoming a citizen is nothing natural, it is more than rational calculation or irrational loyalty or nationalism. A citizen is a subject who learns to be one, is constructed and who's disciplined. When you become one, you enter a legal contract to a relationship with the state which is not just parasitic, but coercive. And also awarding of citizenship is also an uneven process.. within white collared professions there can also be discrimination. What about stories on these?</p> A nicely used metaphor for citizenship in a transnational era, but I find the point about a nation being “nothing more than an imagined community” rather erroneous. Citizenship is an issue beyond just the benefits and goodies. Becoming a citizen is nothing natural, it is more than rational calculation or irrational loyalty or nationalism. A citizen is a subject who learns to be one, is constructed and who’s disciplined. When you become one, you enter a legal contract to a relationship with the state which is not just parasitic, but coercive. And also awarding of citizenship is also an uneven process.. within white collared professions there can also be discrimination. What about stories on these?

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