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UNINA9910459463603321 |
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Titolo |
Law and the stranger [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Collana |
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The amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SaratAustin |
DouglasLawrence |
UmphreyMartha Merrill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Noncitizens |
Emigration and immigration law - Philosophy |
Law - Philosophy |
Sociological jurisprudence |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Negotiating (with) Strangers -- Necessary Strangers: Law’s Hospitality in the Age of Transnational Migrancy -- The Strangers in Ourselves: The Rights of Suspect Citizens in the Age of Terrorism -- Strangers Within: The Barghouti and the Bishara Criminal Trials -- Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference -- Who’s the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda -- Of Stranger Spaces -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910154910403321 |
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Autore |
Rosenthal Betsy R. |
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Titolo |
Porcupine's picnic : who eats what? / / by Betsy R. Rosenthal |
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Minneapolis : , : Millbrook Press, , [2017] |
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1-5124-3872-3 |
1-5124-2840-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Animals - Food |
Food habits |
Porcupines |
Picnics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Front Flap -- Dedication -- Copyright Information -- Title Page -- Who Eats What? -- Back Flap -- Back Cover. |
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"Porcupine is having a picnic! As more animals arrive, each of them eats something different. But then Tiger shows up. Uh-oh! Back matter offers further information about herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores"- - |
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