2 Molly Land, Kathryn Libal, and Jillian Chambers deny many basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution.3 Furthermore, even those limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Given such disparate treatment of non-citizens, the promise of universal human rights law appears relatively empty.4 Perhaps more importantly, however, this volume also seeks to go beyond a discussion of the promise and failure of human rights law, to help us imagine new forms of belonging across borders. If citizenship as a basis for rights is inadequate as a mechanism for universal protection,5 what other values or commitments might ground action to realize rights for the most vulnerable? The chapters in the second half of this book explore these themes, again from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, considering, among other things, the ideas of solidarity and non-citizen rights as concepts that might ground belonging across borders. The book is drawn from presentations at an April 2017 conference on the human rights of non-citizens, held at the University of Connecticut in Stamford, Connecticut, sponsored by the Senator Joseph I. Lieberman Conference & Lecture Series on Human Rights. Both the conference and the collection are interdisciplinary in order to allow broad access to the topic of the rights of non-citizens, with the contributors intervening from their own disciplinary perspectives about the question of who gets to have rights and why. As such, the chapters are also necessarily limited in scope. The literature on human rights and citizenship in each of the disciplines included in this volume – political science, philosophy, sociology, law, anthropology, literature – is extensive. We have sought to be selective and provocative, including pieces designed to start conversations, rather than complete them. Although each chapter approaches the topic from a different starting point, they cohere around two central themes – first, the deficiencies of the current approach to rights across borders and, second, the importance of bottom-up approaches to reimagining belonging that center on the lived experience of rights and responsibilities. The book is organized around these two central themes. The first half of the volume addresses the problems of our current response to the rights of non-citizens both within and outside of state borders and the inadequacy of citizenship as the only foundation for making meaningful claims to rights 3 4 5 E. T. Achiume, “Re-Imagining International Law for Global Migration: Migration as Decolonization?” (2017) 111 AJIL Unbound 142–146, at 142. D. S. Fitzgerald, Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019); S. Parekh, No Refuge (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 131–141. Weissbrodt, “Human Rights of Noncitizens.” A. Brysk and G. Shafir, “Introduction: Globalization and the Citizenship Gap,” in A. Brysk and G. Shafir (eds.), People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108914994 Published online by Cambridge University Press