Author

Publication

2001-09-01 - Princeton University Press

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCJC423 .H748 2001
  • LCCJC423.H748 2001

Description

"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 and asks instead: 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 debates over foreignness help shore up our national or democratic identities, but how anxieties endemic to liberal democracy themselves animate ambivalence toward foreignness."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

"How should we solve the problem of foreignness?"

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Democracy and the Foreigner.HardcoverPrinceton University Press2001-09-01

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