Democracy and the Foreigner

“The divisions between deliberative theory, diversity theory, and postmodern difference theory are very blurry at the edges, with some very good work being done at the intersection of all three (Markell 1997, 2000; White 2000; Honig 2001; Tully 2002).”

“…adherents of the values of personal responsibility and hard work that are distinctive of American political culture and symbols of an optimistic ‘new’ nation constantly renewing its consent-based, individualist identity through the arrival of people leaving their past behind (see Honig, 2001).”

“Honig (2001) Democracy and the Foreigner.”

“…be obliterated in a series of discourses that place the stress on the importance that (some) migrants have in re-establishing the effectiveness of social roles and gender codes that have been problematised in the West most notably by feminist movements in the last decades (Honig, 2001: 82-86).”

“Rather than primarily being about the induction of particular strangers into membership, citizenship ceremonies really serve to affirm the principles that are supposed to bind existing members together (Honig 2003, p. 93).”

“Thus, liberal advocates for migrant “legalization” and “immigrants’ rights” could remain dutifully (if perhaps often unwittingly) faithful to the U.S. nationalist conceits and presuppositions regarding the promise of “Immigrant America” as a refuge of liberty and a haven of boundless opportunity.”

“It is quite possible – and even likely – that migrants become a scapegoat for other problems facing a locality (Honig, 2001).”

“Just as Honig (2001) argues that democracy must have a ‘foreigner’ to function, so too must the IOM maintain the gift of citizenship as a privilege that can be given and taken away.”

“…of political and legal theory, the justifications and legitimacy of the differential treatment of noncitizens have been debated in terms of pros and cons of cosmopolitan, national and communitarian approaches to membership (see, inter alia, Duff, 2010; Honig, 2001; Hudson, 2006; Zedner, 2013).”

“…need to expose how power works upon our consciousness, but it also means that in order for us to achieve emancipation, someone else, whose consciousness is not subjected to the workings of power, needs to provide us with an account of our objective condition (on this theme, see also Honig, 2003).”

“Or, in different contexts, they may come to expect the "foreigner" in their classrooms to generate texts that testify to the exceptionality of the nation-state, particularly in times of tarnished reputation (see e.g., Harklau, 2003; Honig, 2001).”

“Instead, the distinctiveness of every polity has to be continually re-founded in order to reaffirm the allegiance and loyalty of its citizen population (Honig 2001).”

“We encourage school leaders and practitioners so confronted to ask themselves not how to solve problems of difference, but rather the often less expedient but more socially just question, what problems might difference solve for us (Honig 2001)?”

“…constituencies as participants enjoying equal status, protection and opportunities in the workplace, society and politics, and recognises the importance of dialogic exchanges and engagement with ‘a process of reciprocal learning’ (Dallmayr 2001: 346; cf. also Honig 2001; Kostakopoulou 2008).”

“…discourse of gratitude, as Harklau’s study shows, reveals a discursive urgency for the newcomer’s voice to affirm the voice and values of the teacher—and of all longstanding citizens—particularly when the legitimacy and central organizing myths of the imagined nation are in doubt (Honig, 2001).”

“24 Smith 1997; Holland 2001; Honig 2001; Phelan 2001.”

“These practices of appropriation or democratic ‘takings’ (Honig, 2001, p. 100) are evident in several of Rancière’s texts.”

“…the citizenry or polity.2 Central concerns in debates about the public include: the characteristics required for selfgoverning, autonomous citizens (Honig, 2004; Gould, 2004; Rose, 2007); how new political subjects enter or become included in the public (Young, 2000; Iveson, 2007); the processes…”

“In other cases, as subjects marked by foreignness, specifi c immigrants are considered necessary to the nation or unwelcome, or sometimes both, depending on how they contribute to the economic growth of the nation (Honig, 2001: 80–2).”

“Their hard work ethic, love of family, and civic engagement build upon core national values and reinvigorate the moral and economic life of the country (Honig, 2006).”

“…long tradition of scholarship that highlights the intertwinement of a politics of belonging with a politics of alterity in which the European ‘self’ is constructed via enactment of a non-European ‘other’ (e.g. Balibar, 2003; Greenblatt, 1991; Honig, 2001; Isin, 2001; Kristeva, 1991; Todorov, 1999).”

“The refugee has not featured as prominently as it might have been expected to alongside detailed treatments of the foreigner (Honig, 2001), the flâneur (Frisby, 1994; Benjamin, 1999), the tourist (MacCannell, 1976) and the stranger (Simmel, 1976; Diken, 1998).”

“Does the inclusion of non-citizens as (temporary) citizens not also reproduce the very distinction of legitimate membership that they equally call into question (Honig 2003)?”

“It also means that in order for us to achieve emancipation, someone else, whose consciousness is not subjected to the workings of power, needs to provide us with an account of our objective condition (on this theme see also Honig, 2003).”

“…and state identity (e.g., Habermas 1979, 1996; Agnew 1998; Eva 1998; Wilson and Donnan 1998; ÓTuathail 1999; Brunet-Jailly 2005), nationhood (e.g., Honig 2001; Dauvergne 2005; Bauder 2009), and national belonging (e.g., Paasi 1999; Nevins 2002; Sparke 2005; Newman 2006b); however,…”

“Citizenship is something that is taken as much as it is given (Honig, 2001).”

“See Honig (2001); Papadopoulos et al. (2008); Brown (2010); Mezzadra and Neilson (2013); Chomsky (2014); Trimikliniotis et al. (2015).”

“Supercitizen immigrants (Honig, 2001) serve as evidence that such expectations are valid.”

“Whilst the process of making the ‘foreigner’ or the ‘stranger’ has long been influential (see Honig 2001; Walter 2003), such symbolic referents have increased in light of both recent events (such as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001), and the growing public hysteria and moral panic over…”

“For important exceptions, see Cohen (2009); Kofman (2002); Morris (2002); Honig (2001).”

“Citizenisation measures can be seen as expressions of the ambivalent desire/anxiety about foreigners that is constitutive of liberal democracies (Honig, 2001) and that circulates unevenly among those who are variously positioned in the process.”

“Hence, the importance of making newcomers explicitly consenting to the principles of their new societies by means of citizenship tests and loyalty oaths: they offer a vicarious consent for all citizens (see Honig 2001, 94ff.).”

“…campaigns may appear to challenge government power directly, my findings show that strategic and inherently nationalistic presentations of citizenship also work to maintain state sovereignty and uphold paradigms of a particular type of “good” or “supercitizen” immigrant (Honig 2001).”

“Scholars have termed these political stagings as widely as “insurgent citizenship” (Isin 2002), “acts of citizenship” (Isin and Nielsen 2008), “non-citizen citizenship” (Gordon 2005), “democratic cosmopolitanism” (Honig 2001), or “abject cosmopolitanism” (Nyers 2003).”

“This last move can be normatively justified in different ways, for instance as a means toward more neutral arbitration of existing conflicts (e.g. Honig, 2001; Archibugi, 2008).”

“…between “becoming American” and “becoming Black” among some Latin American migrants in Newark may perhaps suggest an unearthing of the hegemonic “immigrant America” mythology in that it places “race” rather than “ethnicity” as a central tenent in the road from “immigrant” to citizen (Honig 2001).”

“It becomes a powerful totem of the ‘active’ and ‘committed’ subject who will become a citizen (Honig 2001, 73–75).”

“At the very least, ethnographers would have to more carefully and creatively fashion the purported “unit of analysis,” or “object of study,” of their research endeavors in a manner that deliberately situates the apparently mundane locations of their studies within a less literal, counterpositivistic conception of tran…”

“Cultural debates in the pages of the Gazette largely mirrored contestations and ambivalence regarding the role of immigration in nationalist constructions of ‘American’ identity (Chavez 2001; Honig 2001).”