Christianity and the Law of Migration

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.

• Foreword: Displacement and TraumaIntroduction: Law and Theology in the Age of MigrationPart One: The Law of Migration1 Exclusion, Admission, and Deportation: Categorical Evolution and Normative Challenges2 The Institutionalization of Inequality: Lower-Skilled and Undocumented Workers in Immigration Law3 In Defense of Chain Migration4 The State of the Law on Refugees, Asylees, and Stateless Persons5 Borders: Sites of Exclusion, Sites of Engagement6 Immigrant Integration and Disintegration in an Era of Exclusionary Nationalism7 True Faith, Allegiance, and Citizenship8 Different Kinds of Foreignness: The Hebrew Bible’s Terminology for Foreigners9 Embrace, Ambivalence, and Theoxenia: New Testament Perspectives on Hospitality to Strangers10 Toward a Theology of Migration11 When the Poor Knock on Our Door: A Theological Response to Unwanted Migration12 The Theopolitics of the Migrant: Toward a Coalitional and Comparative Political Theology13 Migration, Social Responsibility, and Moral Imagination: Resources from Christian Ethics14: "No More Deaths": Religious Liberty as a Defense for Providing Sanctuary for Immigrants15 A Vision of Integration Rooted in Hospitality 16 Labor, Inequality, and Globalization: Legal and Theological Perspectives on Vulnerable Migrant Workers17 Empire, Displacement, and the Central American Refugee Crisis18 Empathy, Legitimacy, Faith, and the Dangerously Uncertain Future of Migration