As states around the globe detain foreigners in greater numbers, a critical, academic examination of the social and cultural world of immigration detention centres is long overdue. This groundbreaking study based on extensive fieldwork in the British system unveils the world of …
"Not a day passes without political discussion of immigration. Reception of immigrants, their treatment, strategies seeing to their inclusion, management of migration flows, limitation of their numbers, the selection of immigrants; all are ongoing dialogues. European Societies, …
The nation's foremost civil libertarian shines a light on the cynical exploitation of 9/11 by government officials to target immigrants and lay the groundwork for rolling back the rights of ordinary American citizens.
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortio…
Contents. Foreword. Introduction. CHAPTER ONE: The Present and the Past: Justitia, Cosmopolis and. Hospitalitas. 1. Issues of international ethics and law. 2. Political and cultural contexts: Globalization, modern, postmodern and. Anti-postmodern confusions. 3. Intellect…
1.1 Cosmopolis m Political Theory. 1.2 Territorial Constraints of Politics. 2.1 Nominal and Substantial Citizenship. 2.2 Territory and Residence. 2.3 Descent and Family Membership. 3.1 Varieties of Consent. 3.2 Hobbes - Consent in Subjection. 3.3 Rousseau - Consent in Par…
"Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. …
Previous research studies regarding acculturation of Iranian immigrants include adaptations and revisions of scales and inventories designed for other ethnic populations. This study was designed to investigate the acculturation of first-generation Iranian-Americans residing in L…
While globalization is widely theorized in terms of apolitical trans-border flows, this paper argues that the so-called "War on Terror," the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the so-called "War on Drugs" have legitimated the use of violence and aggression. This includes criminal…
In the century from 1580 to 1680 the government of the City of London consistently responded to difference as a threat. Responses to the presence of French and Dutch Protestants, Jewish immigrants and supplicants for relief from captivity in Muslim lands announced who was a Lond…
