THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION AND A CATHOLIC COUNTERNARRATIVE
A Perspective from the United States
Keywords:
CATHOLIC COUNTERNARRATIVE, POLITICS OF IMMIGRATIONAbstract
Operative lenses shaping the immigration debate in the United States context can distort migrants’ realities and can become surrogates for other cultural and political concerns. Economic functionalism and fearbased approaches too often de-humanize newcomers, whereas contributions from Scripture and the Catholic social tradition offer a counternarrative of civic kinship that challenges the dominant, instrumentalist frameworks.
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