Christianity and the Law of Migration (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Allard, Silas W.; Nadella, Raj; Heyer, Kristin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the topic of migration, as well as an opportunity for immigration lawyers and legal scholars to engage Christian theology; an opportunity for pastors and Christian theologians to engage law; and new insights on key frameworks for scholars in the study of migration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000436365
• Artikelnr.: 62209786

Autorenporträt

Silas W. Allard, Senior Fellow in Law and Religion, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and Doctoral Student, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Kristin E. Heyer, Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Raj Nadella, Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Displacement and Trauma
Introduction: Law and Theology in the Age of Migration
Part One: The Law of Migration
1 Exclusion, Admission, and Deportation: Categorical Evolution and
Normative Challenges
2 The Institutionalization of Inequality: Lower-Skilled and Undocumented
Workers in Immigration Law
3 In Defense of Chain Migration
4 The State of the Law on Refugees, Asylees, and Stateless Persons
5 Borders: Sites of Exclusion, Sites of Engagement
6 Immigrant Integration and Disintegration in an Era of Exclusionary
Nationalism
7 True Faith, Allegiance, and Citizenship
8 Different Kinds of Foreignness: The Hebrew Bible's Terminology for
Foreigners
9 Embrace, Ambivalence, and Theoxenia: New Testament Perspectives on
Hospitality to Strangers
10 Toward a Theology of Migration
11 When the Poor Knock on Our Door: A Theological Response to Unwanted
Migration
12 The Theopolitics of the Migrant: Toward a Coalitional and Comparative
Political Theology
13 Migration, Social Responsibility, and Moral Imagination: Resources from
Christian Ethics
14: "No More Deaths": Religious Liberty as a Defense for Providing
Sanctuary for Immigrants
15 A Vision of Integration Rooted in Hospitality
16 Labor, Inequality, and Globalization: Legal and Theological Perspectives
on Vulnerable Migrant Workers
17 Empire, Displacement, and the Central American Refugee Crisis
18 Empathy, Legitimacy, Faith, and the Dangerously Uncertain Future of
Migration