Kinship Across Borders :A Christian Ethic of Immigration - Moral Traditions series

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Kinship Across Borders :A Christian Ethic of Immigration - Moral Traditions series

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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 underclass - none 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 ethic - grounded in scriptural, anthropological, and social teachings and rooted in the experiences of undocumented migrants - that calls society to promote concrete practices and policies reflecting justice and solidarity.
Prizes

Winner of Catholic Social Teaching 6 (United States),Winner of Catholic Social Teaching (United States).,Winner of CPA Book Award for Catholic Social Teaching 6 (United States),Winner of Catholic Press Association Book Award for Catholic Social Teaching 6 (United States),Winner of Catholic Press Association Book Award for Catholic Social Teaching.,Winner of Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion (United States).,Short-listed for Catholic Press Association Book Award for Social Teaching.,Short-listed for Catholic Press Association Book Award for Social Teaching 6 (United States),Short-listed for CPA Book Award for Social Teaching 6 (United States)

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Type Book
ISBN13 9781589019300
ISBN10 158901930X
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 340 g
Publisher / Reseller Georgetown University Press
Format paperback
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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

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Author's Bio

Kristin E. Heyer is Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. 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.

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