In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics'
(metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship.
Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a
critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules
and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing.
Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as
separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the
time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian
Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked
centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy
and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and
political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the
metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as
Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that
boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their
non-citizen members.
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