Helen T. Boursier

The Ethics of Hospitality (eBook, PDF)

An Interfaith Response to US Immigration Policies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights the personal witness of refugee families seeking asylum from the Northern Triangle in Central America to the U.S. Their heart-wrenching stories include why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the arduous overland journey, and their inhospitable reception when they arrived to the U.S. and requested asylum. It includes an overview of the systemic connections between the U.S. and the violence which catapults these families to seek safety. The voices of the families join the witness of interreligious volunteers of greater San Antonio who assist the refugee families in diverse capacities and who testify to the mutual blessing they receive when love of God, expressed as love of neighbor, becomes central to the immigration conversation. Ultimately, the proposal is that the interreligious community has the privilege and responsibility to respond in love with refugees seeking asylum, while also leading the outcry in the public square for their radical welcome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978756083
• Artikelnr.: 74829490

Autorenporträt

Helen T. Boursier is professor at College of St. Scholastica.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction to the Proposal and the Conversation Partners
Part One: Setting the Context-Refugee Families seeking Asylum
1. Witness of the Refugee Families
2. The Intersection of Love and Migration in the Abrahamic Tradition
3. Interreligious Hermeneutic of Love for the Refugee Other
Part Two: The Immigration Matrix and U.S. Ideology with Shapes Policies and
Practices
4. The Immigration Matrix-A Systemic Overview
5. The Deep Symbols of U.S. Immigration
Part Three: Systemic Contributions to Migration from the Northern Triangle
6. U.S. Systemic Culpability-Drugs, Guns, Gangs
7. Cultural Contributors to Sociocide in the Northern Triangle
8. The Dangerous Overland Journey to the U.S.
Part Four: Immigration and the Refugee Family 'Detention' Experience
9. Welcome to the USA: Refugee Family Incarceration Trauma in CBP
Facilities
10. Immigrant Family Detention-Also Known As 'Baby Jail'
11. Daunting 'Due Process' and the Credible Fear Interview
Part Five: Crossing Borders and Welcoming Neighbors
12. An Interreligious Praxeology of Love Radical Hospitality-Welcoming the
Stranger as Friend
13. Interfaith Love in Action: Practical Expressions of Radical Hospitality
14. Vulnerability and Dying to Self
15. 'Political Holiness' as the Interreligious Praxis of Love
16. Bibliography of Works Cited
17. Index
18. About the Author