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States And Strangers: Refugees And Displacements Of Statecraft
Nevzat Soguk
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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 $62.95x340 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 MarchBorderlines Series, volume 11Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Show LessProduct 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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About Nevzat Soguk
Nevzat Soguk is assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
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