... the state république respublica statehood vassals ‘boundary problem’ citizens citoyens cives natural liberty pure subject as free and unfree Ramist method République shared subjection extraterritorial statehood subject s territory Westphalia foreigners peregrini subject foreigner contrast...

... for law. This chapter discusses the legal anthropology of the territorial kinship found in the Hebrew Bible, by examining the categories of the native of the land, citizen, the alien who resides in the land, and the foreigner. This legal anthropology represents a Hebraic deflection from Christian...

...This essay examines the place of the foreigner in Kate O'Brien's 1936 novel Mary Lavelle. More specifically, it considers how the notion of foreignness is embraced by the namesake protagonist, Mary Lavelle, a governess who appears to be a stranger to the home and to the language...

... of the political “management of unease,” refugees are most often relegated to foreigners—those to be feared and managed. Refugees as foreigners become targets of derision and social exclusion. This loss of belonging rejects a moral obligation to care for the other in our midst and results in a loss of belonging...

... analysis of those displaced persons whose statuses challenged and tested the limits of Italian republican citizenship, as well as the incipient category of international refugee. In theory, the distinctions that emerged after 1945 in Italy between citizen and foreigner—like those between national refugee...

...In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. This book...

...0 02 04 1992 The deaths of Allegra and Shelley left Claire a lone remnant of the Romantic Age. Her letters and journals, volatile textures of light and shade, record her battles as revolutionary in a world of reaction, servant in households of strangers, an Englishwoman abroad, a foreigner...

...0 10 04 1997 Since the earliest guidebooks in the sixteenth century, the English view of the foreigner has changed remarkably little. Despite the rise and fall of several empires, the alliances with and wars against virtually every country on the Eurasian continent, the English have been able...

...0 11 12 1997 In 1864 Joseph-Eugene Eyraud had been the first foreigner to witness rongorongo “in all the houses” of Rapanui during his nine-month sojourn there. Though his reporting of this extraordinary discovery twice appeared in print in the year 1866 (Eyraud, 1866; Anon...

..., and includes persons from Roma, Traveller, and Gypsy ethnicities, among others. In this context, the concept ‘foreigner’ is significant, since it contrasts with notions such as ‘being born and bred’ and ‘belonging’, which are based on the length of time residents have lived in an area and intergenerational...

... ideation. It further examines the various forms of racism that Asian American college students experience while on campus, such as racial microaggressions, the perpetual foreigner myth, and the model minority myth. The Asian American college students who were interviewed have lived to tell their stories...

... to change in the later 1880s, as debates among foreigners were met by a more widespread Japanese critique of the westernizing project itself. Under the slogan “preservation of the national essence” (kokusui hozon) things “Japanese” were positively reexamined, and “foreigner worship” named...

... durée, and discusses the emergence of ‘the English’ as a concept and the kingdom of England as a geo-political entity before the Norman Conquest. The terminology used in English medieval sources—such as ‘alien’, ‘foreigner’, ‘stranger’—to describe people who were thought to have come from afar...

... nudity religious imagery boundaries marine maritime and naval images peristyles porticoes triclinia dimensionality evil eye frames white color villas yellow color African barbarian deformity diversity dwarf ethnicity foreigner hunchback Other pygmy In Roman art, images...

... of foreigners in the welfare state. It examines group-specific reactions and key factors determining the support for openness or welfare chauvinism. It considers whether working-class support for welfare chauvinism is linked either to economic or cultural aspects. Material and cultural aspects matter...

...Plato’s Caves. Rebecca LeMoine, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190936983.001.0001 This chapter discusses existing interpretations of the treatment of foreigners in Plato’s dialogues. The view that Platonic political thought...

...Plato’s Caves. Rebecca LeMoine, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190936983.001.0001 This chapter investigates why Socrates, an Athenian, presents himself as a foreigner in the Phaedrus. It argues that Socrates...

... Plato reject the wholesale dismissal of his work, the vast majority tend to admit that his portrayal of foreigners is unsettling, to say the least. The conclusion that Platonic political thought is xenophobic gained traction with the publication of Karl Popper s The Open Society and Its Enemies. Writing...

... on the way a woman speaks constitutes an innocent observation, an anodyne remark that will allow them access to a backstory on how she came to speak that way. Whether they are well-intentioned or not, such queries are nonetheless often prying and inappropriate, and they make many foreign-born women writers...

... dilemmas and responses set in motion by the coming of strangers. It surveys the Chinese moral landscape by following the itineraries of several groups of strangers—foreigners, peasant migrants in cities, bourgeois intellectuals in exile, disenfranchised class enemies, uncloistered women, animals...