Ebook: Democracy and the Foreigner

Acknowledgments; 1 NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS: Switching the Question; 2 THE FOREIGNER AS FOUNDER; 3 THE FOREIGNER AS IMMIGRANT; 4 THE FOREIGNER AS CITIZEN; 5 THE GENRES OF DEMOCRACY; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and the Foreigner, Bonnie Honig reverses the question: What problems might foreigners solve for us? Hers is not a conventional approach. Instead of lauding the achievements of individual foreigners, she probes a much larger issue--the symbolic politics of foreignness. In doing so she shows not on.