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Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
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Selecting By Origin: Ethnic Migration In The Liberal State By Christian Joppke (Book Review), David Abraham
Selecting By Origin: Ethnic Migration In The Liberal State By Christian Joppke (Book Review), David Abraham
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Immigration And The Meaning Of United States Citizenship: Whiteness And Assimilation, George A. Martinez
Immigration And The Meaning Of United States Citizenship: Whiteness And Assimilation, George A. Martinez
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At the outset of the twenty-first century, United States immigration policy has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent years, we have witnessed, among other things, calls for dramatically restricting immigration in light of an alleged threat to American national identity, increased border enforcement associated with thousands of deaths on the United States/Mexico border, vigilante activity, special immigration procedures enacted for the "War on Terror," and mass marches protesting draconian immigration reform in cities across the United States. Against this background, this essay seeks to explore what immigration and the various issues it raises have …
Reconciliation And Social Action In Cyprus: Citizens’ Inertia And The Protracted State Of Limbo, Nicos Trimikliniotis
Reconciliation And Social Action In Cyprus: Citizens’ Inertia And The Protracted State Of Limbo, Nicos Trimikliniotis
Nicos Trimikliniotis
This paper will attempt to chart a normative framework for action for a social politics of reconciliation via a course for citizens’ action across the ethnic divide of Cyprus. It will attempt to consider the context and content of reconciliation in Cyprus at this time and examine the various ‘routes’ to reconciliation, in terms of locating their theoretical, philosophical and ethical points of reference. Whilst ‘reconciliation’ is something that normally takes place after a settlement, the groundwork (conceptual, political and societal) needs to begin whenever the potential is there: the protracted state of limbo that characterises the Cyprus problem as …