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States And Strangers: Refugees And Displacements Of Statecraft

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Description for States And Strangers: Refugees And Displacements Of Statecraft Paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD; JPA; JPS; LBBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.

Looks at the role of refugees in international relations.

Refugees may flee their country, but can they escape the confining, defining logic of all the voices that speak for them? As refugees multiply in our troubled world, more and more scholars, studies, and pundits focus on their plight. Most of these analyses, says Nevzat Soguk, start from a model that shares the assumptions manifested in traditional definitions of citizen, nation, and state. Within this hierarchy, he argues, a refugee has no place to go. States and Strangers questions this paradigm, particularly its vision of the territoriality of life.

A radical retheorization ... Read more

Using historical, archival research and interpretive strategies drawn from a genealogical approach, Soguk considers the role of the refugee in the emergence and maintenance of the sovereign territorial state from the late seventeenth century to contemporary times.

ISBN 0-8166-3166-2 Cloth/jacket £00.00 $62.95x

340 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 March

Borderlines Series, volume 11

Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Borderlines
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816631674
SKU
V9780816631674
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99-50

About Nevzat Soguk
Nevzat Soguk is assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

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