The failure of current immigration policies in the United States has resulted in dire consequences: a significant increase in border deaths, a proliferation of smuggling networks, prolonged family separation, inhumane raids, a patchwork of local ordinances criminalizing activities of immigrants and th
| Title | : | Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration (Moral Traditions) |
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (377 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158901930X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-6-29 |
| Language | : | English |
The failure of current immigration policies in the United States has resulted in dire consequences: a significant increase in border deaths, a proliferation of smuggling networks, prolonged family separation, inhumane raids, a patchwork of local ordinances criminalizing activities of immigrants and those who harbor them, and the creation of an underclassnone of which are appropriate or just outcomes for those holding Christian commitments.Kinship Across Borders analyzes contemporary US immigration in the context of fundamental Christian beliefs about the human person, sin, family life, and global solidarity. Kristin Heyer expertly demonstrates how current US immigration policies reflect harmful neoliberal economic priorities, and why immigration cannot be reduced to security or legal issues alone. Rather, she explains that immigration involves a broad array of economic issues, trade policies, concerns of cultural tolerance and criminal justice, and, at root, an understanding of the human person.In Kinship Across Borders, Heyer has developed a Christian immigration ethicgrounded in scriptural, anthropological, and social teachings and rooted in the experiences of undocumented migrantsthat calls society to promote concrete practices and policies reflecting justice and solidarity.
She is the author of Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of US Catholicism, which won the College Theology Society's Best Book Award, and coeditor of Catholics and Politics: Dynamic Tensions between Faith and Power. Kristin E. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Heyer is Bernard J. "Kinship Across Borders is a necessary text for university libraries that maintain collections in Theology, Politics, Law or Philosophy. It should be read by anyone interested in finding solutions to the immigration problems we all face today."Catholic Library World"Enables new understandings of the human person threatened and renewed, and reveals threats to family and civic bonds while pointing to how those bonds may be strengthened"Robert Heimburger, Modern Theology. I felt as though all of the tips listed were very realistic from start to finish. After the acknowledgements there are five chapters, notes for further reading, notes, illustration credits (six helpful black and white illustrations) and a good index. All author Judy Delton has to do is get enough kids cutting them out and she'll have ingeniously insured sales of new books. Why does HiT, random house and fisher price care about nothing but money?. The recipes given in this book are great and I would also like to extend my wishes to Marc Morris for providing such a good cook book. Maybe young gay men grow up faster than they did 20 years ago? Tom's suicide attempt is like a spoiled child's temper tantrum. Focus on health over weight. Best ever. Right now I don’t have time for that – so I chose to get a book with short stories. His penmanship is quite good and the book comes with some extras including a short essay on leadership, maps, a brief summary of the Congo Crisis leading up to the events, and photographs ranging to rescued hostages to an amphibious landing (there are some brutal images as well such as the bodies of Catholic priests murdered by the Simba
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