The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

by Linda Bosniak

Book Overview

Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary and exclusionary dimensions of citizenship dramatically collide within the territory of the nation-state, creating multiple contradictions when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138281
• ISBN13: 9780691138282
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"