The Law of Strangers
The Law of Strangers

Author: James Loeffler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107140412

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Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Law and the Stranger
Law and the Stranger

Author: Austin Sarat

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-07-06

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 080477515X

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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.

Welcoming the Stranger
Welcoming the Stranger

Author: Matthew Soerens

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0830885552

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World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.

Stranger Intimacy
Stranger Intimacy

Author: Nayan Shah

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-01-09

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0520950402

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In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

Author: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 136596051X

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The Ancient City is Fustel de Coulanges' superb investigation of life during classical antiquity; a culture he felt rested and flourished upon religious observance. This fascinating history offers the reader ideas of how day-to-day life in Ancient Rome and Greece was sustained for centuries. Coulanges covers each major topic in sequence, beginning with the crucial assertion that religion what was held classical life together. This is swiftly followed by examples of customs and morals that defined interpersonal and familial life; marriage; adoption; rights of property and assets to name but some. Coulanges progresses to discuss the physical city. How a town would grow in size, what amenities and institutions would appear, and how religion so greatly impacted the citizen's life. Governance, through edicts, criminal and civil law, and the ruling council of a given city is examined. Latterly, we hear the importance of the class system; conflict between the lower classes - or plebiscite - and the nobility.