The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy

Demetra (University of Chicago) Kasimis

Cambridge University Press, 2019

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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.

ISBN-13
9781107670464
ISBN-10
1107670462
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-05-16
Pages
226
Dimensions
153x227x16
Weight
340