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Law and the Stranger.
Title:
Law and the Stranger.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9780804775151
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Series:
The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Negotiating (with) Strangers -- What Is a Stranger? -- Strangers and Hospitality -- Border Patrol: Law's Negotiations with Strangers -- The Stranger and the Barbarian -- Overview of the Chapters -- Notes -- Necessary Strangers: Law's Hospitality in the Age of Transnational Migrancy -- 1. The Neighborliness of the Law: Kant on the Cosmopolitan Right of Hospitality -- 2. Strangers in the Home: The Global Trade in Domestic Workers -- 3. Unrightful Hospitalities: The Trade in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian -- Envoi -- Notes -- The Strangers in Ourselves: The Rights of Suspect Citizens in the Age of Terrorism -- Notes -- Strangers Within: The Barghouti and the Bishara Criminal Trials -- Radical Difference in the Court -- The Law of Jurisdiction -- Midway Conclusion -- The Constitutional Analogy -- From Hypothetical Trials to Real Trials -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference -- Self, Other, and the Negotiation of Difference -- Conflicts Doctrines -- Conflicts among Norm-Generating Communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Who's the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda -- Strangers in the House -- A Novel of Strangers -- The Novel and the Law -- A New Law for Strangers: Fiction after All? -- Notes -- Of Stranger Spaces -- Of Stereotypes and Clichés -- Of Utopias and Heterotopias -- Of Force and Fancy -- Of Dissents -- Of Hortatory Law -- Of Dicta -- Of Color Blindness -- Of Poets and Legislators -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across national borders.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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