This paper discusses the ways in which “post-diasporic” Muslim children (second and subsequent generations) in western European welfare states (with examples from Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) are perceived as present individuals with rights and responsibilities – or as so called ‘citizen-beings’ - and as citizens of the future - or so called ‘citizen-becomings’ in educational political discourses. It addresses current shifts in discourses on the rights and responsibilities of individual (such as different categories of children and parents) and collective actors (such as states) in welfare state policies and the ways in which a globalization of rights and responsibilities can or cannot contribute with solutions to inequalities and injustices which amongst others “post-diasporic” Muslim children encounter.