God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists are Working for Immigrant Rights
God's Heart Has No Borders concerns how religious people promote social justice and contribute to lessening social suffering, exclusion, and inequalities through challenging immigration laws and public perceptions of immigrants and immigration. Through activist work, religious people involved i...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2009
|
| In: |
A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 159-160 |
| Review of: | God's heart has no borders (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008) (Menjívar, Cecilia)
God's Heart Has No Borders (CA : University of California Press, 2008) (Menjívar, Cecilia) God's heart has no borders (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2008) (Menjívar, Cecilia) |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | God's Heart Has No Borders concerns how religious people promote social justice and contribute to lessening social suffering, exclusion, and inequalities through challenging immigration laws and public perceptions of immigrants and immigration. Through activist work, religious people involved in immigrant rights organizations seek to contest the legal and physical lines of demarcation between immigrants and citizens/natives so as to welcome the foreigners and in the process create an inclusive, democratic society. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp029 |