Biopolitics and the Rights of Man

According to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, it’s not clear that the word ‘man’ and ‘citizen’ are two different words, independent from each other or there’s something in common. “ Men are born and remain free and equal in rights” and “ Every man is born with inalienable and indefeasible rights” as a bare natural life as stated in the Declaration 1789, but until the biopolitics of modernity takes place the ‘men’ transformed itself to be the ‘citizen’ whom rights are ‘preserved’ not ‘born with’.

                The article try to link between the rights of man and the nation state, and since the modernity, bare lives were given some parts of their right to the state and therefore ‘national sovereignty’. “The ‘subject’ is transformed into a ‘citizen’ means that birth, here for the first time becomes the immediate bearer of sovereignty” meaning being born in which states then is the citizen of that state. The concept of “blood and soil” is indicate the citizenship in which born to the citizen of that state and born in that state territory. Then ‘refugee’ came in to play that it threaten the concept of citizenship and the link between ‘nativity’ and ‘nationality’

                In my opinion, refugee made the line between the man and citizenship become even blurred, and nation state started to lose its power.