UID:
edocfu_9959233294002883
Format:
1 online resource (262 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-7515-X
Series Statement:
The amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Content:
Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Negotiating (with) Strangers --
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Necessary Strangers: Law’s Hospitality in the Age of Transnational Migrancy --
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The Strangers in Ourselves: The Rights of Suspect Citizens in the Age of Terrorism --
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Strangers Within: The Barghouti and the Bishara Criminal Trials --
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Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference --
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Who’s the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda --
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Of Stranger Spaces --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7154-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804775151
