The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies. Introduction Today, nationality is still among the most important justifications of political rule. Many modern national states have been created through the application of the following two principles of international law, […]
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Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)
Nail, Thomas. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0804796580. 312 pages. If the 21st century is indeed the century of the migrant, then Thomas Nail’s work is a timely consideration of this oft-neglected shadow of human civilization. To be precise, Nail argues for the necessity of this figure throughout terrestrial […]