Review of Linda Bosniak’s Book

In the Law and Politics Book Review, Kif Augustine Adams (BYU) offers a glowing review of LINDA BOSNIAK (Rutgers-Camden), THE CITIZEN AND THE ALIEN: DILEMMAS OF CONTEMPORARY MEMBERSHIP (Princeton University Press, 2006).  Professor Adams notes that Linda Bosniak’s stated purpose in writing THE CITIZEN AND THE ALIEN is “to advance the conversation” between two bodies of scholarship regarding citizenship: the “inward-looking” view and the “boundary-conscious” approach (p.2). The inward-looking body of citizenship scholarship embodies a sense of universalism, of broad inclusion. With its major concern being “the internal life of the political community,” formal membership in the community is both presumed and unquestioned (p.2). The inward-looking view has often been the domain of political philosophers, social theorists, and civil rights activists. The quality of citizenship is foremost.  Click here to read the review.

KJ