The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy

The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
ISBN-10
1107052432
ISBN-13
9781107052437
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2018-07-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Demetra Kasimis

Description

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.

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