The perpetual immigrant and the limits of Athenian democracy

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The perpetual immigrant and the limits of Athenian democracy

Statement of responsibility

Demetra Kasimis

Creator

• Kasimis, Demetra

Author

• Kasimis, Demetra

Subject

• Democracy -- Greece | Athens
• Metics
• Athens (Greece) -- Emigration and immigration
• Citizenship -- Greece | Athens

Language

eng

Summary

In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members

Member of

• Classics after antiquity
• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

323.60938/5

Index

index present

LC call number

JC75.C5

LC item number

K37 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Classics after antiquity