Friday, August 28, 2009

Immigration Bibliography

What books have you read about immigration? Here are some of mine:

Books with a distinctively Christian point of view about immigration:
  • Carroll R., M. Daniel, Christians at the Border, Immigration, the Church and the Bible, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008, 172 pages.
    [Focuses on the Old Testament and deals with biblical languages for pastors and Bible students. Dr. Carroll teaches at Denver Seminary in the United States and has taught at Seminario Teolólogical Centroamericano.]
  • De la Torre, Miguel A. Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on Immigration, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, (October 31, 2009 release date)
  • Soerens, Matthew and Hwang, Jenny, Welcoming the Stranger Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate, Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2009, 240 pages. I reviewed this for Sojourners. You can read that review, "Love and the Law."

Other books from a Christian perspective that include something about immigration:
  • Volf, Miroslav, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, Nashville: Abington, 1996.
  • Wallis, Jim, The Great Awakening, 2008
  • Rah, Soong-Chan, The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity, IVP, 2009
I would like to develop a broad list of the relevant literature on immigration. I offer these from my own Christian faith perspective. What have you read? Let me know what you've read and what you recommend and why. We can develop a bibliography from which we can all learn.

2 comments:

Byron K. Borger said...

Thanks for this. I own a bookstore and we have a good handful of others ones along these lines, although the ones you've just mentioned are excellent.

Do you have an email address where I can send a few other titles...it is tricky for me doing it here without spellcheck and such. Would love to chat further. Let me know at
read@heartsandmindsbooks.com

I did a long review of The Snakehead (a major new book about Chinese smuggling and immigration and asylum claims...see the blog at http://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/booknotes/

Thanks again.

Byron Borger
Hearts & Minds

MaryRW said...

Here's a good one: "The Accidental American:Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization" by Rinku Sen with Fekkak Mamdouh

http://www.accidentalamerican.us/

And one I've wanted to read for quite a while: "A Nation of Immigrants" by John F. Kennedy.