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Book Strangers  Aliens  Foreigners

Download or read book Strangers Aliens Foreigners written by Marissa Sonnis-Bell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the other from experiences of migrants and refugees to terrorist labels to constructions of the local. We find that inclusive and exclusive identities are often arbitrarily defined along ambiguous lines, yet with tangible and deeply political consequences.

Book Strangers  Aliens and Asians

Download or read book Strangers Aliens and Asians written by Anne Kershen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the area of Spitalfields in East London, this volume compares and contrasts the settlement, integration and assimilation processes undergone by three different immigrant groups over a period of almost three hundred and fifty years.

Book Aliens and Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Strhan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0198724462
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Aliens and Strangers written by Anna Strhan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth fieldwork with a conservative evangelical church in London, Aliens and Strangers? explores the everyday realities of what it means to try to hold on to a strong sense of religious identity in a secular, modern urban context.

Book Aliens   Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Strhan
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2015-06-19
  • ISBN : 0191036544
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Aliens Strangers written by Anna Strhan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. 'St John's' is a vibrant church, with a congregation of young and middle-aged members, one in which the life of the mind is important, and faith is both a comfort and a struggle - a way of questioning the order of things within society and for themselves. The congregants of St John's see themselves as increasingly counter-cultural, moving against the grain of wider culture in London and in British society, yet they take pride in this, and see it as a central element of being Christian. This book reveals the processes through which the congregants of St John's learn to understand themselves as 'aliens and strangers' in the world, demonstrating the precariousness of projects of staking out boundaries of moral distinctiveness. Through focusing on their interactions within and outside the church, Strhan shows how the everyday experiences of members of St John's are simultaneously shaped by the secular norms of their workplaces and other city spaces and by moral and temporal orientations of their faith that rub against these. Thus their self-identification as 'aliens and strangers' both articulates and constructs an ambition to be different from others around them in the city, rooted in a consciousness of the extent to which their hopes, concerns, and longings are simultaneously shaped by their being in the world.

Book Making Strangers  Outsiders  Aliens and Foreigners

Download or read book Making Strangers Outsiders Aliens and Foreigners written by Abbes Maazaoui and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on foreignness have increased substantially over the last two decades in response to what has been dubbed the migration/refugee crisis. Yet, they have focused on specific areas such as regions, periods, ethnic groups, and authors. Predicated on the belief that this so-called “twenty-first century problem” is in fact as old as humanity itself, this book analyzes cases based on both long-term historical perspectives and current occurrences from around the world. Bringing together an international group of scholars from Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, it examines a variety of examples and strategies, mostly from world literatures, ranging from Spain’s failed experience with consolidation as a nation-state-type entity during the Golden Age of Castile, to Shakespeare’s rhetorical subversion of the language of fear and hate, to Mario Rigoni Stern’s random status at the unpredictable Italian-Austrian borders, to Lawrence Durrell’s ambivalent approach to noticing the physically visible other, to the French government’s ongoing criminalization of hospitality, to Sandra Cisneros’s attempt at straddling two countries and cultures while belonging to neither one, to the illusive legal limbo of the DREAMers in the United States. We are not born foreigners; we are made. The purpose of the book is to assert, as denoted by the title, this fundamental premise, that is, the making of strangers is the result of a deliberate and purposeful act that has social, political, and linguistic implications. The ultimate expression of this phenomenon is the compulsive labeling of people along artificial categories such as race, gender, religion, birthplace, or nationality. A corollary purpose of the book is to help shed light worldwide on one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: the place of “the other” amid fear-mongering and unabashedly contemptuous acts and rhetoric toward immigrants, refugees and all those excluded within because of race, gender, national origin, religion and ethnicity. As illustrated by the examples examined in this book, humans have certainly evolved in many areas; dealing with the “other” might not have been one of those. It is hoped that the book encourages reflection on how the arts, and especially world literatures, can help us navigate and think through the ever-present crisis: the place of the “stranger” among us.

Book No Longer Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Coles
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2021-02-23
  • ISBN : 083084791X
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book No Longer Strangers written by Gregory Coles and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belonging has never come easy to me. But the way Jesus tells it, if we give up on belonging in order to follow him, we'll find ourselves belonging anyway—we'll belong like aliens. Maybe you're caught in the same tension as me, wanting to fit somewhere even as you're permanently out of place. Maybe you feel like an alien. If so, let's be aliens together.

Book Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us

Download or read book Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us written by Laura Hunt Yungblut and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the reign of Elizabeth I, large numbers of aliens immigrated into England for various reasons, most notably to escape religious persecution and the wars that wrecked the Continent in the sixteenth century. Much like governments facing immigration issues today, England's governors struggled to strike a balance between the potentially beneficial and the potentially dangerous aspects of the aliens' presence. Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us focuses on the link between the aliens, native English and the central government. It explores policies and attitudes, bringing new perspectives to familiar documents as well as introducing documents rarely seen in the subject's scholarship.

Book Strangers   Aliens

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  • Author : Trey Dunham
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2013-04-04
  • ISBN : 9781484036402
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Strangers Aliens written by Trey Dunham and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My life is full of doubt and uncertainty. It is full or strangeness and a deep sense that I don't really live here, that this is not my home. And because of that I know there must be a different way, a different life to be lived out there somewhere. "And all this feels like a journey, a path laid out by someone bigger and wiser and with a far better perspective than mine. Filled with pain and disappointment and struggle and joy and peace and laughter and tears. But I know I am on my way home. I am on my way to God." "Strangers & Aliens" offers a unique look at Peter's first letter through the eyes of new author Trey Dunham. A world traveller, pastor, teacher and church planter, Trey's insight, humor and authenticity will help you find your way, God's way, and His place for you as he guides you, a stranger and an alien, through this life.

Book Strangers  Gods and Monsters

Download or read book Strangers Gods and Monsters written by Richard Kearney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skil lfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters. In the first part of the book, he shows how the figure of stranger - the "barbarian" for ancient Greece, the 'savage' for imperial Europe - defines our own identity by the very idea that it is the Other, not we, who is unknown. He then goes on to examine the image of the monster, and with the aid of powerful examples from ancient Minotaurs to medieval demons and post-modern enemies, argues that human selfhood itself frequently contains a monstrous element. In the final part of the book Richard Kearney shows how many gods are still alive for people today testifying to the human psyche's yearning to slip the shackles of our finitude and death. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them.

Book Crossing the Blvd

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780393057379
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Crossing the Blvd written by and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.

Book Strangers in African Societies

Download or read book Strangers in African Societies written by Herschelle Challenor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report, comparison of the attitudes and reactions of African host countries to migrants, foreigners and migrant workers - discusses social theories, historical and current background, economic policy relating to aliens; covers multinational enterprises, legal status, indigenization, nationalization, conflicts between aliens and citizens (social structure, race relations, ideologies, economic and political aspects, etc.); includes case studies of Ghana and Uganda. Bibliography. Conference held in Belmont 1974 Oct 16 to 19.

Book Lists of Foreign Protestants  and Aliens  Resident in England 1618 1688  From Returns in the State Paper Office

Download or read book Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens Resident in England 1618 1688 From Returns in the State Paper Office written by Camden Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens  Resident in England 1618 1688

Download or read book Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens Resident in England 1618 1688 written by William Durrant Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lists of Foreign Protestants  and Aliens  Resident in England 1618 1688

Download or read book Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens Resident in England 1618 1688 written by Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strangers to the Constitution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald L. Neuman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-01
  • ISBN : 1400821959
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Strangers to the Constitution written by Gerald L. Neuman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.S. insiders to claim the Constitution as their exclusive property and to deny constitutional rights to aliens and immigrants--and even citizens if they are outside the nation's borders. Tracing such efforts from the debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 to present-day controversies about illegal aliens and their children, the author argues that no human being subject to the governance of the United States should be a "stranger to the Constitution." Thus, whenever the government asserts its power to impose obligations on individuals, it brings them within the constitutional system and should afford them constitutional rights. In Neuman's view, this mutuality of obligation is the most persuasive approach to extending constitutional rights extraterritorially to all U.S. citizens and to those aliens on whom the United States seeks to impose legal responsibilities. Examining both mutuality and more flexible theories, Neuman defends some constitutional constraints on immigration and deportation policies and argues that the political rights of aliens need not exclude suffrage. Finally, in regard to whether children born in the United States to illegally present alien parents should be U.S. citizens, he concludes that the Constitution's traditional shield against the emergence of a hereditary caste of "illegals" should be vigilantly preserved.

Book STRANGERS

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phil Hinsley
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2014-01-16
  • ISBN : 1491890347
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book STRANGERS written by Phil Hinsley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Look, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples.’ This was written by Isaiah over seven hundred years before the birth of Christ. It speaks of our unfulfilled desire for peace and the injustice and suffering of our age. This age was described by Isaiah as ‘all darkness and walking in deep shadows.’ Our search for light is blighted by hostility and lies. What happened when God himself gave his laws and a way to live to a people liberated from slavery? Did they enjoy peace and security? This book follows the biblical account and uncovers what really happened to them and the choice that today we all face.

Book Strangers From The Sky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Wander Bonanno
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2006-08-01
  • ISBN : 0743455622
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Strangers From The Sky written by Margaret Wander Bonanno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise. Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.