Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
The immigrating ethnic cultural groups which never get the opportunity to become citizens under multiculturalism are called
AMetics ✓ Correct
BNational minorities
CImmigrant groups
DIsolationist ethno-religious groups
Correct answer: (A) Metics — The immigrant groups denied any route to citizenship under multiculturalism are called metics.
Explanation
★The immigrant groups denied any route to citizenship under multiculturalism are called metics.
★The term comes from ancient Greece, where metics (metoikoi) were resident foreigners who shared some civic duties but were excluded from citizenship, the assembly and jury service.
★Will Kymlicka revived the word to describe modern migrants who are settled but permanently shut out of full membership, a gap multicultural citizenship aims to close.
★National minorities, by contrast, are historically settled, territorially concentrated groups such as the Quebecois or indigenous peoples, with claims to self-government, not metics.
★Immigrant groups in Kymlicka's scheme normally do get a path to citizenship through polyethnic rights, so they are not the excluded category.
★Isolationist ethno-religious groups, such as the Amish, voluntarily withdraw from the wider society rather than being denied entry to it.
★Spotting cue: metics means migrants kept out of citizenship; the word itself is the giveaway in any Kymlicka question on membership.
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