The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy |
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Author:
| Kasimis, Demetra |
Series title: | Classics after Antiquity Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-107-67046-4 |
Publication Date: | May 2019 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $37.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.