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Artículo de periódico

Foreigners: Insiders, Outsiders and the Ethics of Membership

Fecha

1997

Autores

William J Booth

Resumen

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

Volumen

59

Número

2

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

General relevance - all sectors

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

Global relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Estudios culturales y étnicas, Ciencias Políticas, y Socioligie

Idiomas

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