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What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and the...

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Main Author: Honig, Bonnie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalism.
Internationalism.
Immigrants.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
internationalism.
nationalism.
Internationalisme.
Nationalisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and the Foreigner, Bonnie Honig reverses the question: What problems might foreigners solve for us? Hers is not a conventional approach. Instead of lauding the achievements of individual foreigners, she probes a much larger issue--the symbolic politics of foreignness. In doing so she shows not only how our.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9781400824816

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