&"Kathleen Arnold has written a fascinating account of the &'undecidable&' status of Mexican immigrants in the United States, as well as factory workers (the &'maquiladoras&') who work along the U.S./Mexico border. For Arnold, these groups represent the intersection between sovereignty and bare life. Arnold shows how in the United States both right-wing and liberal &'solutions&' to the &'problem&' of undocumented immigration collude to produce a group of people without rights. Where the right wing produces the sovereign response, separating these workers from the rest of U.S. society, the liberal solution serves to take advantage of this community&'s statelessness and reduce them to merely economic subjects with no legal protections of any kind.

In this way there is a kind of unholy alliance between the forces of globalization and neoliberalism on the one hand and sovereignty, nationalism, and racism on the other. In her astute analysis, Arnold identifies a potential for &'postnational citizenship,&' a status whereby the undecidability of the border offers new hybrid forms of identity that can resist or subvert rather than simply succumb to the pernicious effects of globalization and sovereignty.&" &James Martel, San Francisco State University.