Between 1550 and 1750 tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them religious refugees escaping persecution on the Continent, settled in Britain and its colonies, and in Ireland. They brought...
Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.S. insiders to claim the Constitution as their exclusive property and to deny constitutional rights to aliens and immigrants--and even citizens if they ...
Comprises 11 essays which explore the economic, social and political aspects of UK immigration policy as well as its international legal framework. Covers trends from 1981 to 1993.
against Federalist policies, they drew the attention of the wider public and the scrutiny of Federalists on the lookout for possibly seditious writings. Up to this point, however, Cooper had written in the tone of a political thinker to ...
From Strangers to Citizens
... favored cuts, and only 13 percent favored increases. But when they were asked about “spending on programs for poor children,” 47 percent favored increases, and only 9 percent favored cuts (DeParle). 5. Indeed, the word ambivalent ...
Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.
How should democracies respond to the millions who want to settle in their societies? David Miller’s analysis reframes immigration as a question of political philosophy.
Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot.
These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies.