Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part i Introduction -- 1 Mental Maps and Virtual Checkpoints Struggles to Construct and Maintain State and Social Boundaries -- Boundaries -- Belonging -- The Image and Practices of the State -- Part ii On the Eve of the Nation-State: The Ottoman Empire -- 2 Do States Always Favor Stasis? -- Early Years -- Settling Nomads -- Mobility-in-Stasis -- Boundaries and Belonging -- Conclusion -- 3 The Permeable Boundaries of Ottoman -- Ottoman Jews and the Hazards of Modernity -- The Language of Change -- Part iii The State and "Dangerous Populations" -- 4 "Dangerous Populations" -- The Border and the Creation of a Palestinian National Minority in Israel -- The Border as "Protected Area": Creating a Heteronomous Space -- Protected Against Whom? -- The Border as a Total Institution -- Concluding Remarks -- 5 Making Myanmars -- Why Non-Burmese Languages Became Dangerous -- Language, Boundaries, and Belonging before 1988 -- Language and Belonging in the "Myanmar" Era -- Differentiation -- Homogenization -- Making Myanmar Speakers -- Conclusion: The Making (or Unmaking?) of Myanmars and Myanmar Speakers -- 6 Institutionalizing Virtual Kurdistan West -- Introduction -- Transnational and Ethnic Networks in International Affairs -- The Kurdish Challenge -- Justice Ministry: Kurdish Rights in European Courts -- The Justice Ministry and Leverage Politics -- KHRP and Alternative Avenues of Justice -- "Culture Ministry": Preserving and Promoting Kurds as Nation -- The Institut Kurde de Paris -- MED-TV -- "Foreign Affairs Ministry": Kurdish Politics, Parliaments, and Diplomacy -- "Enemy State": Ethnic Kurdish Politics in Virtual Kurdistan West -- Foreign Diplomacy -- Apo Goes to Rome: Abdullah Öcalan in Virtual Kurdistan West -- Conclusions.

Part iv Inscribing Membership and Contesting Membership in the Nation -- 7 Challenging Boundaries and Belongings -- Introduction -- "Full Blood" versus "Mixed Blood" Challenges to the Nation -- "Head of Family" Debate -- Political Competence -- "Deserving" Indians and Political Competence in the Jane Waldron Case -- "Blood Quantum" -- Blood Quantum Arguments in Waldron Case -- "Mixed Bloods" and the Threat of Ambiguity: The Barney Traversee Case -- Redefining "Mixed Bloods" -- Conclusion -- 8 Belonging and Not: Rossland, British Columbia, during the Great War -- National Belonging, the State, and War -- The Golden City Goes to War -- Mobilizing Conformity -- Exclusion and Appropriate Behavior -- Reconfiguring Allegiances -- Conclusion: Loyalty, Labor, and the Networks of the State -- 9 Boundaries and Belonging in Conditions of Extreme Politicization -- Introduction -- The State in Intimate Spaces: Politics, Marriage, Divorce, and Sex -- The State in Public Spaces -- Conclusion -- 10 Gender and the Reproduction and Maintenance of Group Boundaries -- Who Are The Religious Communities in Israel? -- Why Join the State? -- Gender and Group Boundaries -- Internal Group Restrictions and Gender Roles: Marking In Group as Out Group -- Conclusion -- Part v Beyond the State: Transnational Forces and the Challenge to the State -- 11 Passports into Credit Cards -- Citizenship and the Symptoms of Neoliberalism -- From PACE-ing the Border to the NEXUS of Business and Security -- The Cascadian Space of Neoliberal Selfhood -- Conclusions -- 12 Contested Boundaries -- Introduction -- European Law: The End of Nationality and Territory as a Basis for Belonging? -- Realizing the Supranational Community? Discrepancies between the Idea and Practice of European Belonging -- Public Servants, Public Sector Employment, and the Contested National Bond.

Migrants, Residents, and Contested Access to Social Welfare -- Third Country Families, Associated Nationals, and Contested European Membership -- No Stake in Europe? Individuals and Civil Society between Nationalized and Universal Communities -- 13 Boundaries of the Nation-State and the Lure of the Islamic Community in Turkey -- The Heritage of Contestation: Universal Islam and the Local State -- Islamist Ascendance -- The Nation-State and Its Islamic Criticism -- The Welfare Party between Islam and the Nation-State -- The Welfare Party and the Borders of the Nation-State -- Transgressing Secular Turkish Citizenship: The Welfare Party and the Kurds -- Transgressing Secular Turkish Citizenship: The Welfare Party and the Head-Scarved Women -- Conclusion -- Part vi Conclusion -- 14 Conclusion -- Index.