This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social
protection educational training and human security of its overseas citizens. Additionally
Michel S. Laguerre seeks to explain the rise of the postdiaspora condition: an emancipatory
metamorphosis of diaspora status. Laguerre pays particular attention to the crossborder
services that the state provides transfrontier mechanisms developed by various institutions
as well as extraterritorial forms of management and governance. He sheds light on complex
crossborder arrangements and management the multiplicity of crossborder agencies and
organizations and the promulgation of new laws that provide a legal basis for these
extraterritorial undertakings by the state. The ability of emigrants to hold citizen status-and
to enjoy access to the same rights and privileges as those offered to residents of the
homeland-sets the cosmonational context for the performance of the postdiaspora condition.
