Our world is navigating a multi-year immigration crisis too often fueled by fear and division rather than a vision for our shared humanity and flourishing in our neighborhoods.
This crisis isn’t limited to the borderlands between Mexico and the US
but is taking place on our streets and in our neighborhoods here in the East Bay/Contra Costa.
Together, we’re mapping out actions steps to help each other
(1) deepen our knowledge of immigration realities,
(2) increase our relational proximity to those nearest the pain, and
(3) contend and advocate for immigration justice(locally & nationally)
Check out the three sections below and add to the action steps.
Please use the comment feature to mark anything you have questions about, suggest changes to wording and/or language used, note things that may not be helpful(along with some reasoning for why they may not be helpful so we can learn/grow together), etc.
Deepen Knowledge
This section contains links, articles, media, etc. that candeepen our knowledge of immigration realities(the push and pull of immigration,realities of what’s happening now in our neighborhoods & on the border, historic & current American immigration policies, etc.)
When we met in person, one of the exercises we did was a“know/don’t know” practice of naming the things we know AND don’t know about what’s happening right now in immigration.
Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens & Jenny Yang(link)
Koser, Khalid(2016), International Migration: A Very Short Introduction,(Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/2KhzXSh
Budde, Michael L.(2016), Beyond the Borders of Baptism: Studies in World Catholicism(Wipf and Stock Publishers) http://bit.ly/2YqHGCs.
Kerwin, Donald and Jill Marie Gerschutz(2009), And You Welcomed Me: Migration and Catholic Social Teaching(Rowman & Littlefield) http://bit.ly/2LOcefF
Cavanaugh, William T.(2011), Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing) http://bit.ly/3168aLk
Nevins, Joseph(2002), Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the"illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary(Psychology Press) http://bit.ly/2Oq6udT
Groody, Daniel G., Gustavo Gutierrez, and Virgilio P. Elizondo(2007), Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit,(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). http://bit.ly/2YxvnID
Foley, Michael W. and Dean R. Hoge(2007), Religion and the new immigrants: how faith communities form our newest citizens,(Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/2LP3XrB
Deepen Knowledge