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Christianity and the law of migration / edited by Silas W. Allard, Kristin E. Heyer, and Raj Nadella.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law and religion (Series) (Routledge (Firm))
- Law and religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration law--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Christianity.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 361 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : law and theology in the age of migration / Silas W. Allard
- Exclusion, admission, and deportation : categorical evolution and normative challenges / Daniel Kanstroom
- The institutionalization of inequality : lower-skilled and undocumented workers in immigration law / Enid Trucios-Haynes
- In defense of chain migration / Bill Ong Hing
- The state of the law on refugees, asylees, and stateless persons / Michele R. Pistone
- Borders : sites of exclusion, sites of engagement / Silas W. Allard
- Immigrant integration and disintegration in an era of exclusionary nationalism / Donald M. Kerwin Jr.
- True faith, allegiance, and citizenship / Rose Cuison Villazor
- Different kinds of foreignness : the Hebrew Bible's terminology for foreigners / Safwat Marzouk
- Embrace, ambivalence, and theoxenia : new testament perspectives on hospitality to strangers / Raj Nadella
- Toward a theology of migration / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
- When the poor knock on our door : a theological response to unwanted migration / Gemma Tulud Cruz
- The theopolitics of the migrant : toward a coalitional and comparative political theology / Ulrich Schmiedel
- Migration, social responsibility, and moral imagination : resources from Christian ethics / Kristin E. Heyer
- "No more deaths" : religious liberty as a defense for providing sanctuary for immigrants / Rose Cuison Villazor and Ulrich Schmiedel
- A vision of integration rooted in hospitality / Donald M. Kerwin Jr.and Safwat Marzouk
- Labor, inequality, and globalization : legal and theological perspectives on vulnerable migrant workers / Gemma Tulud Cruzand Enid Trucios-Haynes
- Empire, displacement, and the Central American refugee crisis / Bill Ong Hingand Raj Nadella
- Empathy, legitimacy, faith, and the dangerously uncertain future of migration / Kristin E. Heyerand Daniel Kanstroom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Christianity and the law of migration
- ISBN:
- 9781003042198
- 1003042198
- 9781000436372
- 1000436373
- 9781000436365
- 1000436365
- Publisher Number:
- 40030861013
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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