ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

part I|75 pages

Theory

chapter 1|22 pages

Economy of Invisible Debt and Ethics of Radical Hospitality

Toward a Paradigm Change of Hospitality from “Gift” to “Forgiveness”

chapter 2|24 pages

Forgiveness as the Political Responsibility

Iris Marion Young's Social Connection Model and the Case of Undocumented Migration

chapter 3|27 pages

Documenting Justice for Undocumented Migrants

Having a Critical Discourse with Contemporary Theories of Justice from Rawls to Nussbaum

part II|101 pages

Issues

chapter 4|23 pages

The Democratic Inclusion of the Other and the Case of Arizona Immigration Law

Habermas, Derrida, and a Christian Ethical Response

chapter 5|24 pages

Reconstructing the Religious Right to Express Compassion

The Employer Sanctions Law and a Theological Critique

chapter 6|27 pages

Specters of Racism in the U.S. History of Immigration

Foucault on Denaturalizing the Biopolitics of State Racism

chapter 7|25 pages

Theology and Universal Solidarity

Allen, Hauerwas, and Cavanaugh on the Theological Connection Model of Responsibility