PEOPLE ON THE MOVE AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
Keywords:
CATHOLIC, SOCIAL, TEACHINGAbstract
Millions of people are on the move. Often their rights claims are seen as conflicting with those of host communities and as threatening national sovereignty. This article presents a brief overview of the response of Papal Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on migration in the post Vatican II period, and that of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences. It suggests the following areas for potential development in CST on migration: criteria for the acceptance of migrants when the common good prevents the acceptance of all who have a moral claim on a community; engaging with the gendered experiences of women migrants and the social construction of complementarity as subordination; and moving beyond a nuclear-family-centred perspective. In the interplay between local and universal CST, the Bishops of Asia have the opportunity to contribute more to the development of CST as a more truly international and less Eurocentric body of teaching.
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