Strangers

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…

This dissertation extends the ancient Hebrew and Christian ethic of hospitality to vulnerable strangers. The dissertation develops a mutually critical correlation between the fact of the Christian ethical centrality of hospitality and the contemporary situation of geographical a…

This dissertation explores the relationship between social reproduction and geographic locality within a population of migrants and their descendants originating in Africa's western Sahel region and living in the city of Brazzaville, Congo. Its theoretical context is at the inte…