商品簡介
The cultural rights of minorities are frequently discussed in political and public forums: the socio-legal literature emphasizes these rights and focuses on how they can be protected. This singular book deals, for the first time, with the cultural rights of the majority. With more than 230 million immigrants worldwide, majority groups increasingly feel a need to protect their culture. Liberal theory and human rights law recognize the rights of minority groups to maintain their unique cultural identity, yet assume that majority groups have neither a need for a similar right nor a moral basis for defending them.The Cultural Defense of Nations moves beyond these assumptions by asking two simple but important questions: is the cultural continuity of majority groups a legitimate purpose to restrict immigration; and is the immigrant's cultural background a legitimate criterion to restrict immigration?
Changing patterns of contemporary immigration have motivated a new trend in liberal democracies: proactive immigration and naturalization policies designed to defend the culture of majority groups. This trend is fed by fears of immigration - some justified, some paranoid - which explain the rise of extreme right-wing parties in the West. The book reveals a troubling trend in liberal states, which, ironically, in order to protect liberalism, violate the very same values, and presents a liberal theory of cultural defense that distinguishes between justifiable and unjustifiable attempts of majority groups to protect their culture. It constructs liberal standards by which majority groups can welcome immigrants without fundamentally changing their cultural heritage, forsaking their liberal traditions, or gliding into extreme nationalism.
The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis in one of the greatest challenges facing liberalism today the cultural rights of majority groups.
作者簡介
Liav Orgad, Marie Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of Law, Freie Universitat Berlin and Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel
Liav Orgad is a Marie Curie Fellow at Freie Universitat Berlin and an Assistant Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, NYU Law School, the European University Institute, and Universitat Luzern. Dr Orgad specializes in comparative constitutional law, comparative immigration law, constitutional identity, and citizenship theory. His research has been awarded prominent fellowships and grants, including Fulbright, Jean Monnet, Rothschild, and the Israel Science Foundation. Dr Orgad is the recipient of Dan David Prize for Young Scholars of Exceptional Promise (2013), Russell Sage Presidential Authority Award (2012), Eric Stein Prize for Best Scholarly Article by the American Society for Comparative Law (2011), and the Wolf Prize for Outstanding Achievements of Young Scholars (2010).
