Democracy and the foreigner
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2001
xvi, 204 pages ; 24 cm
9780691088846, 9780691114767, 0691088845, 0691114765
45715863
Natives and foreigners
The foreigner as founder
The foreigner as immigrant
The foreigner as citizen
The genres of democracy