This contribution argues that the right of access to extraterritorial jurisdiction shaped privilege-based communities across national borders. It discusses extraterritoriality as a legal framework that enabled and shaped the building of communities of foreigners from many different backgrounds. Extraterritoriality – counterintuitively – amalgamated and strengthened a community through that very diversity. This was precisely why that community of foreigners – specified as the odd ones out – understood itself as a social unit across national boundaries, loosening and even contesting its affiliation to a specific nation and/or empire.

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通过多样性获得力量？域外悖论与奇怪的历史。

这一贡献认为，获得域外管辖权的权利塑造了跨越国界的基于特权的社区。它讨论了域外性作为一个法律框架，该框架使来自许多不同背景的外国人社区得以建立和形成。域外性（与直觉相反）通过这种非常多样化的方式融合并增强了社区。这就是为什么那个外国人社区（被指定为奇怪的人）将自己理解为跨越国界的社会单位，甚至放松了与特定国家和/或帝国的隶属关系。