Religious Ethics and Migration

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Religious Ethics and Migration

Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers

Migration, immigration and emigration Ethnic studies Sociology International relations Religious ethics

Author: Ilsup Ahn

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Collection: Routledge Studies in Religion

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 12th November 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 544 Kb

ISBN: 9781317933229


What does it mean to provide justice for undocumented workers who have been living among us without proper legal documentation? How can we do justice to the undocumented migrants who have been doing the low-skilled, low-paid jobs unwanted by citizens? Why should we even try to do justice for people who violate the laws of the society?

Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers addresses these questions from a distinctive religious ethical perspective: the Christian theology of forgiveness and radical hospitality. In answering these questions, the author employs in-depth interdisciplinary dialogues with other relevant disciplines such as immigration history, global economics, political science, legal philosophy, and social theory. He argues that the political appropriation of a Christian theology of forgiveness and the radical hospitality modeled after it are the most practical and justifiable solutions to the current immigration crisis in North America. Critical and interdisciplinary in its approach, this book offers a unique, comprehensive, and balanced perspective regarding the urgent immigration crisis.

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