Inhabiting the Land: The Case for the Right to Migrate
Overview
The Scriptures teach us that people have always been fearful of immigrants. Pharaoh, confronting a fast-growing population of Israelites, enslaved them and instituted the first documented population-control policies. Once settled in their own country, the Israelites themselves forgot the honor due to foreigners, even though each of the patriarchs had been a sojourner in a country not his own. Consequently, the Torah reminds the Israelites that they should treat sojourners as well as they treat their own people. Immigration is always a controversial subject. Catholic social teaching maintains that there is a right to migrate. But what does this mean, especially in societies saturated in “rights-talk?” This monograph explains the nature, origins and limits of the right to migrate, and illustrates some of its policy-implications.
- Title: Inhabiting the Land: The Case for the Right to Migrate
- Author: Andrew Yuengert
- Series: Christian Social Thought Series
- Volume: 6
- Publisher: Acton Institute
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › Doctrines; Christian sociology › Catholic Church; Emigration and immigration › Religious aspects--Catholic Church
- Resource ID: LLS:INHABITINGLAND
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:05:43Z