Democracy and Its Others

by Jeffrey H. Epstein

Book Overview

Today's unprecedented levels of human migration present urgent challenges to traditional conceptualizations of national identity, nation-state sovereignty, and democratic citizenship. Foreigners are commonly viewed as outsiders whose inclusion within or exclusion from "the people" of the democratic state rests upon whether they benefit or threaten the unity of the nation. Against this instrumentalization of the foreigner, this book traces the historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350061093
• ISBN13: 9781350061095
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"