PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Liberal Democracy, Espresso, Metic
1 Sep 2020
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Isolationist ethnoreligious groups: there are some small immigrant populations which voluntarily isolate themselves form the later society, and avoid participating in politics or civil society. This option of voluntary marginalization is only likely to be attractive to ethnoreligious groups whose theology requires them to avoid all contact with he modern world. In order to avoid contact with the modern world, and to maintain their traditional way of life, these groups eek exemption from various laws. Many western democracies have historically been quite accepting of these demands, this is surprising sine by their own admission these groups often lack any loyalty to the state. However, despite the official rules, they have settled more or less permanently. Generally speaking, the most basic claim of metic is to regularize their status as permanent residents and to giantess to citizenship. Western democracies have responded in different aways to these demands.
