In what follows, I elaborate on one of Appadurai’s key points (2021): that the concept of ‘statizen’ highlights global right-wing state re-articulation through digital identification. In order to do so, I instrumentalise Appadurai’s argument that the ‘statizen’ is characterised by the ‘centrality of bureaucratic documentation as the sole and over-riding criterion of citizenship’ and the ‘success in defining a state-issued document as the basis of all of life’ (Appadurai, 2021). Taking this discussion on the making of ‘statizens’ forward, I consider two contemporary cases of digital identification rollouts by the right-wing governments in power in Jamaica and Kenya as instances of the deployment of ‘biometric imaginaries’ of state belonging (Donovan 2015). Together, these cases illuminate the salience of the bureaucratic focus of ‘statizens’ in anthropologies of the right-wing transformation, resistant practices to the imposition of digital identification initiatives and how postcolonial nationalism informs a global perspective on statizen-making to these forms of surveillance, technosoloutionism and lean governance.

在下文中，我详细阐述了 Appadurai 的一个关键点（2021 年）：“statizen”的概念通过数字识别突出了全球右翼国家的重新表达。为了做到这一点，我将 Appadurai 的论点加以工具化，即“statizen”的特点是“官僚文件的中心地位是公民身份的唯一和压倒一切的标准”和“成功地将国家颁发的文件定义为公民身份的基础”。生命的全部”（Appadurai，2021 年）。继续讨论“国家公民”的形成，我将牙买加和肯尼亚当权的右翼政府推出的两个当代数字身份识别案例作为部署国家归属的“生物识别想象”的实例（Donovan 2015）。总之，这些案例说明了右翼转型人类学中“国家公民”的官僚主义焦点的显着性，反对强加数字身份识别举措的实践，以及后殖民民族主义如何为这些形式的监视提供关于国家公民的全球视角、技术解决方案主义和精益治理。