This article questions multiculturalism’s reliance on citizenship as a default condition of inclusion. While agreeing with multiculturalists that there are groups within the citizenry who are excluded from citizenship rights on the basis of their cultural background, this article highlights the misrecognition of non-citizens that is yet unaccounted for by Anglophone theories of multiculturalism where eligibility to multicultural rights-claiming hinges on the condition of formal citizenship. The status of non-citizenship affects conceptions of ‘difference’ where representations of cultural ‘otherness’ are compounded by the ‘foreignness’ of non-citizens. Frameworks of multicultural citizenship entail recognition through group-specific rights, but only for citizens, in so doing excluding the needs and rights of non-citizens. The assumption made by multiculturalists is that citizenship is a condition of multicultural rights and/or recognition despite scenarios where non-citizens may not desire the citizenship of their host country, or the idea of ‘belonging’ it is attached to. Appealing to multiculturalist principles and the neo-republican notion of non-domination, I argue that multiculturalism as a theory can challenge the limitations of citizenship by expanding its compass to include non-citizens as multicultural subjects.

本文质疑多元文化主义是否将公民身份作为包容性的默认条件。尽管与多元文化主义者达成共识，即根据其文化背景，公民中有某些群体被排除在公民权利之外，但本文着重强调了对非公民的误解，这是英语多元文化主义理论所无法解决的，在该理论中，多元文化权利的资格包括：声称取决于正式公民身份的条件。非公民身份会影响“差异”的概念，其中文化“其他”的表述与非公民的“外来”相加。多元文化公民身份框架要求通过特定群体的权利予以承认，但仅限于公民，这样做是在排除非公民的需求和权利的情况下。多元文化主义者所做出的假设是，尽管非公民可能不希望其所在国拥有公民身份，也没有附加“归属”的概念，但公民身份是多元文化权利和/或承认的条件。我呼吁多元文化主义原则和新共和制的非统治概念，认为多元文化作为一种​​理论可以通过扩大其指南针范围，将非公民作为多元文化主体来挑战公民身份的局限。