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The Cosmonational State

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In Chapter 6, the deployment of the cosmonational state is studied in tandem with the rise of the postdiaspora condition, explaining how the former provides a context for the sustenance and flourishing of the latter. After reviewing literature on the interface of state and globalization, it discusses state remaking by way of the transformation of the nation-state into a cosmonational state. Then, it examines new metaphors developed that are reflective of the cosmonational state, identifies characteristics of the cosmonation-centric state, discusses the production of cosmonational laws, and shows how voting abroad is seen as a mechanism that symbolizes the extraterritorial expansion of the state. It goes on to explain how state administrative services provided exclusively to the inhabitants of the nation-state are now extended to the extraterritorial emigrant population. Additionally, this chapter explores the complexity of the governance of the cosmonational state and compares family reunification and nation reunification with cosmonational reunification.

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Laguerre, M.S. (2017). The Cosmonational State. In: The Postdiaspora Condition. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52261-6_6

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