1st Edition

Christianity and the Law of Migration

Edited By Silas W. Allard, Kristin Heyer, Raj Nadella Copyright 2022
392 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration. Gathering 14 leading scholars from both law and Christian theology, the book covers legal perspectives, theological perspectives, and key concepts in migration studies. In Part 1, scholars of migration law and policy discuss the... Read more
 

Foreword: Displacement and Trauma
Emilie M. Townes

Introduction: Law and Theology in the Age of Migration
Silas W. Allard

Part One: The Law of Migration

1 Exclusion, Admission, and Deportation: Categorical Evolution and Normative Challenges
Daniel Kanstroom

2 The Institutionalization of Inequality: Lower-Skilled and Undocumented Workers in Immigration Law
Enid Trucios-Haynes

3 In Defense of Chain Migration
Bill Ong Hing

4 The State of the Law on Refugees, Asylees, and Stateless Persons
Michele R. Pistone

5 Borders: Sites of Exclusion, Sites of Engagement
Silas W. Allard

6 Immigrant Integration and Disintegration in an Era of Exclusionary Nationalism
Donald M. Kerwin Jr.

7 True Faith, Allegiance, and Citizenship
Rose Cuison-Villazor

8 Different Kinds of Foreignness: The Hebrew Bible’s Terminology for Foreigners
Safwat Marzouk

9 Embrace, Ambivalence, and Theoxenia: New Testament Perspectives on Hospitality to Strangers
Raj Nadella

10 Toward a Theology of Migration
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán

11 When the Poor Knock on Our Door: A Theological Response to Unwanted Migration
Gemma Tulud Cruz

12 The Theopolitics of the Migrant: Toward a Coalitional and Comparative Political Theology
Ulrich Schmiedel

13 Migration, Social Responsibility, and Moral Imagination: Resources from Christian Ethics
Kristin E. Heyer

14: "No More Deaths": Religious Liberty as a Defense for Providing Sanctuary for Immigrants
Rose Cuison-Villazor and Ulrich Schmiedel

15 A Vision of Integration Rooted in Hospitality
Donald M. Kerwin Jr. and Safwat Marzouk

16 Labor, Inequality, and Globalization: Legal and Theological Perspectives on Vulnerable Migrant Workers
Gemma Tulud Cruz and Enid Trucios-Haynes

17 Empire, Displacement, and the Central American Refugee Crisis
Bill Ong Hing and Raj Nadella

18 Empathy, Legitimacy, Faith, and the Dangerously Uncertain Future of Migration
Kristin E. Heyer and Daniel Kanstroom

Biography

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.