theories of etnicity , Sellers

Since Z. Bauman worked on The classical figure of the stranger in Georg Simmel, my interest in following this figure en dd with the publicación of my book in Spanish El lejano próximo. Estudios sociológicos sobre extrañeidad (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2009). Here i've articulated the strangerhood condition with the uncanny.  

You might also want to look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" for the idea of a flâneur. 

An essay by Alfred Schütz: The Stranger (http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~hajek/ModerniSgTeorie/texty_seminar/schutz-the%20stranger.pdf). Considering literature, why not the book by Albert Camus?

Nice question...

Simmel - The Stranger

Park - Human Migration and the Marginal Man

Stonequist - The Marginal Man: A Study in Personality and Culture Conflict

Garfinkel -  Successful Degradation Seremonies

Goody - The East in the West

etc...

To all :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaCpc7osbek

Georg  Simmel's The Stanger (in french, Digressions sur l'étranger) is a classic

Thanks all for your great recommendations, many of which I confess to never having heard of. Having now read Simmel's 'The Stranger,' and the introduction to Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters, there are some great semblances there that I can definitely pick out.

Simmel and Ahmed maintain that the stranger is always, somewhat counter-intuitively, constructed as known which resonates with postcolonial critics' (Jameson; Loomba; Fanon; Mignolo etc). thoughts on the other.

"[S]trangeness means that he, who also is far, is actually near. For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction" (Simmel)

I'll check out the rest of your brilliant recommendations over the coming days.

Many thanks.

A term known to the Greeks is that person who has good qualities always and can be a savior as in the narration, The Stranger by Albert Camus

Asim, thanks for your recommendation. Perhaps it's time I returned to Camus!

Yelena, that's a great shout! It's from Derrida that I was inspired to develop the idea of the stranger, encounters with the stranger and, ultimately, embraces with the stranger. Thank you for reminding me to return to him.

Wolfgang, thanks so much for all your responses. The lecture on loneliness is fascinating! In the context of (post/neo)colonialism, and its violent mechanisms of ostracism, I don't know how it easy it would be for me to argue the case for an endemic kind of loneliness. Nevertheless, an interesting and convincing argument! Likewise, the etymology and genealogy of 'alterity' you've drawn attention to is greatly received. Certainly, I'm trying to get away from the 'domestication' of the other as the stranger and so Hazell's book is super useful.

Thanks ever so much, all.

H