Strangers, aliens, foreigners : the politics of othering from migrants to corporations / Edited by Marissa Sonnis-Bell, David Elijah Bell and Michelle Ryan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Arbitrary Constructions and Real Consequences of the Self and Other / Marissa Sonnis-Bell -- The Real People: Ethnohuman Speciation at the Intersection of Modern Western Multiculturalism, Human Rights, and 'Islamic' Terrorism / David Elijah Bell -- My Foreign Self as Privileged Outsider: Differing Lines for Marginalization and Inclusion of Swiss Living Abroad / Aldina Camenisch and Seraina Müller -- Invited In but Kept Out: Experiences of Skilled Afrikaans-Speaking South African Immigrants in Australia / Hanna Jagtenberg -- Hostipitality in Post-War Society / Lana Pavić -- Lost and Found in Limerick: Exploring the Experiences of Migrants Who Have Made Limerick Their Home / Michelle Ryan -- Fighting against the Wind: Politics of 'The Local' and Corporate Othering in Community Activism against Wind Energy Installation in Upstate New York / Marissa Sonnis-Bell -- 'Christmas is Cancelled': Controversy in Italian Schools (and Press) / Tommaso Trillò.

To contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we "other" others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about "others." Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners questions such consolidation and polarization of identities in representations ranging from migrants and refugees, to terrorist labels, to constructions of the local. Inclusive and exclusive identities are observed through often arbitrary yet strategically ambiguous lines of class, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, social status, and geography. However, despite any arbitrariness in definition, there are very real consequences for the emotional, physical, and psychological well-being of those constructed as "the other", as well as legal governance implications involving human rights and wider sociopolitical ethics. From practical, professional, and political-philosophical points of view, this collection examines what it means to be, or to construct, the Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners . Contributors are David Elijah Bell, Adina Camenisch, Hanna Jagtenberg, Seraina Müller, Lana Pavić, Michelle Ryan, Marissa Sonnis-Bell and Tomasso Trilló.