This book offers the opportunity to raise fundamental questions regarding the lives and struggles of distressed migrants. This book basically tries to capture the various aspects of migration in general at the global level and migration in particular at the Indian level; it is an attempt to highlight the issues faced by the migrants in general and distressed migrants in particular; it is an effort to resist from viewing migrants as faceless numbers but as fellow human beings who are marginalised and pulverised.

Contents

Preface

Responding to Refugees and Migrants: Twenty Action Points Holy Father Francis to the UN. 2017

1. Introduction

2. State of the Distressed Migrants

3. Migration and Migrants in the Bible

4. Migration in Christian Theologising

5. Socio-Economic and Political Factors and Implications of Distressed Migration

6. The Catholic Church’s Social Teaching on Migrants

7. Responses of National and International Agencies

8. Christian Responses to Distressed Migration

9. Recommendations and Conclusions

References

Prakash Louis and Peter Ignatius are Jesuits who have over 2 decades of social and theological, academic and action oriented engagement in the lives and the struggles of the migrants and the marginalised.