Ratna Kapur
Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Ratna Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi and a Lecturer at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva. I would like to thank all the participants of the Why Citizenship? workshop, University of Toronto, for their invaluable comments and input into an early draft of this paper. Different versions of this paper have been resented at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam; the seminar on Dispersed
Trajectories: Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Road Ahead, Oxford University; the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich; the Consultation on Gender, Migration
and Human Rights, organized by the Centre For Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi; and the Keynote Address to the Pune Law Institute, Pune. I am grateful to all those who provided helpful comments and constructive criticism on the paper. I would also like to thank Gayatri Sharma for her research assistance.