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Foreigners: Insiders, Outsiders and the Ethics of Membership

Date

1997

Authors

William J Booth

Abstract

Questions of exclusion, membership and the status of resident foreigners press upon liberal political thought and society with a particular sharpness, given the universalist underpinnings of the liberal commitment. How within the horizon of liberalism and rights discourse are we to think of the foreigner? The article suggests some reasons why we should consider suspect the cluster of notions surrounding alienage and sketches why the moral salience of the foreignness of these outsiders at our door and present among us has diminished, and thus brought under scrutiny our traditional comportment toward them. But it is not so much intended here to seek a resolution of these issues as to motivate a cluster of questions, to argue for their importance and to show the inadequacy of the treatment of them that we have inherited.

Journal title

Review of Politics

Volume

59

Issue

2

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Economic sectors

General relevance - all sectors

Target groups

Researchers

Geographical focuses

Global relevance

Spheres of activity

Cultural and ethnic studies, Political science, and Sociology

Languages

English