I. REFUGEES and ASYLUM SEEKERS

Catholic Social Teaching

Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants. “The Love of Christ towards Migrants” (“Erga migrantes caritas Christi”). Vatican City, 2004.  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/
documents/rc_pc_migrants_doc_20040514_erga-migrantes-caritas-christi_en.html

Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants. “Presentation: A Shameful Wound of our Time.” Vatican City, 2000. Available online at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/
documents/rc_pc_migrants_doc_20000601_refu_presentazione_en.html

Pope Benedict XVI. "Papal Message for 95th World Day of Refugees and Migrants." Vatican City, 2009. Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20080824_world-migrants-day_en.html

Pope Benedict XVI. “Young Migrants: Message for the 94th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.” Vatican City, 2008.  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20071018_world-migrants-day_en.html

Pope Pius XII. “Exsul Familia Nazarethana.” Apostolic Constitution. Vatican City, 1952. Available online at http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/p12exsul.htm

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Resolutions/Statements/Pastoral Letters Issued by the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Since 1976.”  Washington, D.C., June 2007.  Available online at http://www.usccb.org/mrs/synopsis.pdf

United States Catholic Conference of Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services. Stop Trafficking of People. Washington, D.C.  Available online at http://www.usccb.org/mrs/stoptraffick.pdf

U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services. “Escaping Mayhem and Murder: Iraqi Refugees in the Middle East.” Washington, D.C., July 2007.  Available online at http://www.usccb.org/mrs/Trip%20Report%20on%20Iraqi.pdf

United States Catholic Conference. Who Are My Sisters and Brothers? Reflections on Understanding and Welcoming Immigrants and Refugees. Washington, D.C., 1996.

Jesuit Refugee Service

Arrupe, Pedro. "The Society of Jesus and the Refugee Problem." A Letter of Fr. Pedro Arrupe to all Jesuit Major Superiors. 1980.  Available on at http://www.jrsusa.org/about_foundation.php

Jesuit Refugee Service.  God in Exile: Towards A Shared Spirituality With Refugees, October 2005.Available online at http://www.with.jrs.net/files/GodinExile.pdf

Jesuit Refugee Service. Jesuit Refugee Service. The Charter of the Jesuit Refugee Service. 2000. Available online at http://www.jrsusa.org/publications/publications_documents_jrs
_charter.php

Jesuit Refugee Service.  Wound of the Border: 25 Years with Refugees,  October 2005.Available online at http://www.with.jrs.net/files/wound.pdf

Jesuit Refugee Service. War Has Changed Our Life, Not Our Spirit: Experiences of Forcibly Displaced Women. February 2001.  Available online at http://www.with.jrs.net/files/wb.pdf

Jesuit Refugee Service.  Everybody’s Challenge: Essential Documents of Jesuit Refugee Service 1980-2000.

Other Documents

Ballenger, Barbar, ed., Prayer Without Borders: Celebrating Global Wisdom. 
Baltimore, MD: Catholic Relief Services, 2004.

Boswell, Christina.  The Ethics of Refugee Policy.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. [A rethinking of liberal ethics in order to construct a more ethically feasibly, and descriptively plausible, account of duties to refugees.]

Brennan, Frank.  Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2003.  [This work compares Australia’s response to migration with that of the U.S. and Europe, providing a practical blueprint for countries that want to humanely protect asylum seekers.]

Bhabha, Jacqueline and Susan Schmidt.“Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in the U.S.” Annual Report of Committee on Human Rights Studies at Harvard University. June 2007. Available online at http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/conference/Seeking_Asylum_ Alone_US_Report.pdf

Christiansen, Drew. “Movement, Asylum, Borders: Christian Perspectives.” International Migration Review 30 (Spring 1996): 7-11.

Christiansen, Drew. “Sacrament of Unity: Ethical Issues in the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees.” In Today’s Immigrants and Refugees: A Christian Understanding.  Washington, D.C.: National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1988.

Gibney, Mathew J. The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004. [In addition to explaining why asylum has emerged as such a key political issue in recent years, this book provides an account of how states could move towards implementing morally defensible responses to refugees.]

Helton, Arthur C.  The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. [This book systematically analyzes refugee policy responses over the past decade and calls for specific reforms to make policy more proactive and comprehensive.]

Hollenbach, David, ed. Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008.  [The contributors—all of whom have “on the ground” experience in East Africa—identify social and political conditions facing refugees while suggesting how the problems of forced displacement can be mitigated.] For furthe information, click  http://www.press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?session
=f700bcdb78f24223bf2424b1c05c2f2b&id=9781589012028

Human Rights Watch.  “Children in the Ranks.”  A video production on prevention of the use of child soldiers. 2007.  Available online at http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/child_soldiers/index.htm

Kenney, David N. and Philip G. Schrag. Asylum Denied: A refugee's struggle for safety in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Lamoureux, Patricia A.  “Immigration Reconsidered in the Context of an Ethic of Solidarity.” In Regis Duffy and Angelus Gambetese, eds.  Made in God’s Image: The Catholic Vision of Human Dignity.  Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999.

Loescher, Gil. Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  [This work argues that a pressing need exists for a more comprehensive political response to the pressure of the refugee generations that lie ahead.   The causes that drive people to move and the serious political and strategic consequences of refugee movements for governments all over the world must be clearly understood.]

Magriñà, Lluís.  Refugees in the 21st Century: Can We Find a Solution?  Barcelona: 2006. Available online at http://www.fespinal.com/espinal/llib/en123.pdf  [Magriñà maintains that, based on JRS’s experience in 52 countries, that the majority of refugees result directly from armed conflict.  He suggests tackling injustices as a way towards creating viable solutions to refugee and IDPs’ crisis.]

Martin, James. This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.  [A young American Jesuit tells of his time working with refugees in East Africa.]

Mayotte, Judy. Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis,
1992.

Moore, Jonathan, ed.  Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention. Lanham Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.)  [This volume brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in a variety of international interventions. The authors cover issues of human rights, development, sanctions, arms trade, refugees, HIV, and the media. They make the case that, although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decision making and intervention in internal conflicts.]

Norwegian Refugee Council. Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007. Geneva: 2007. [This report highlights that the estimated number of people displaced within their countries by armed conflicts and violence has passed the 26 million mark, the highest global total since the early 1990s.] Available online at http://www.jrsusa.org/docs/IDMC_Internal_Displacement_Global_Overview_2007.pdf

O’Brien, Kevin. “Consolation in Action: The Jesuit Refugee Service and the Ministry of Accompaniment,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 37 (Winter 2005).

Smith, Gary. They Come Back Singing. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2008.  [The author’s spiritual journal of his ministry to south Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda that describes JRS's approach to 'accompaniment' as well as the gospel-based transformation that the poor and vulnerable call us to.]

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Report on Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, February 2005.

United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Geneva: 1951.  Available online at http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/protect/
opendoc.pdf?tbl=PROTECTION&id=3b66c2aa10

United Nations General Assembly. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. New York: 1967. Available online at http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/protect/opendoc.pdf?
tbl=PROTECTION&id=3b66c2aa10

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  UNHCR 2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons.  Geneva: UNHCR, June 2008.  Available online at http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4852366f2.pdf

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Action for the Rights of Children (ARC): Critical Issues—Child Soldiers, 2002. Available online at http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3f83de714.pdf

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MIGRATION and GLOBALIZATION

Catholic Social Teaching

Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants. Presentation: “I was a stranger and you made me welcome.” Vatican City, 2000. Available online at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/documents/
rc_pc_migrants_doc_20000601_migr_presentazione_en.html

Fides Agency: Dossier of "The Question of Immigration in America."  Vatican City, 29 November 2008.  Available online at http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=20589&lan=eng

Hamas, Cardinal Stephen Fumio. “The Instruction Erga Migrantes Caritas Christi: A Response of the Church to the Migration Phenomenon Today.” People on the Move, 97 (April 2005).  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/pom2005_97/
rc_pc_migrants_pom97_sedos-hamao.html

Pope Benedict XVI. “The Migrant Family: Message for the 93rd  World Day of Migrants and Refugees.” Vatican City, 2007.  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20061018_world-migrants-day_en.html

Pope Benedict XVI. “The Migrations: a Sign of the Time: Message for the 92nd  World Day of Migrants and Refugees.” Vatican City, 2006.  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20051018_world-migrants-day_en.html

Pope John Paul II.  “Peace of Earth to Those Whom God Loves: Message for the Celebration of the World Day for Peace.” Vatican City, 2000.  Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_08121999_xxxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html

Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States. “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope.” Pastoral letter concerning migration. January 2003.  Available online at http://www.usccb.org/mrs/pastoralstatements.shtml

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity and Diversity.  Pastoral Statement. Washington, D.C. 2000.  Available online at http://www.usccb.org/mrs/unity.shtml

Arizona Catholic Conference and the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy on Van Nuys. “You Welcomed Me.” Pastoral letter on migration. December 2005.  Available online at http://www.diocesephoenix.org/acc/bishops_statements/PDF%20You%20welcomed%20me.pdf

Kicanas, Gerald F. and  Thomas J. Olmsted. “Comprehensive immigration reform, not punitive state laws, the right approach to the immigration crisis.” January 2008.  Available online at http://www.diocesephoenix.org/acc/documents/BishopsOpEd.pdf

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Other Documents

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., “Chaos on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Report on Migrant Crossing Deaths, Immigrant Families and Subsistence-Level Laborers.” November 2001.  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/AtRisk/atrisk5.pdf

Campese, Gioacchino, and Pietro Ciallella, eds. Migration, Religious Experience, and Globalization. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 2003.

DeParle, Jason. “A Good Provider is One Who Leaves,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, 22 April 2007.   Available online at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9D04E7D6113FF931A15757C0A9619C8B63&scp=5&sq=jason+DeParle&st=nyt

DeParle, Jason. “Should We Globalize Labor Too?” New York Times Sunday Magazine, 10 June 2007, pp. 80-85,. Available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/ magazine/10global-t.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=jason+DeParle&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Groody, Daniel. Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2007.

Groody, Daniel and Gioacchino Campese,  eds. A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration, South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

Kerwin, Donald. “The Natural Rights of Migrants and Newcomers: A Challenge to U.S. Law and Policy,” In D. Groody and G. Campese, eds. A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration. South Bend, IN:Notre Dame Press, 2008)

Kerwin, Donald. “America’s Children” America, 24 September 2007. Available online at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10210

Kerwin, Donald. “A Catholic Perspective on Migrants and Newcomers.” Origins, 36, 21 December  2006.  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/ArticlesbyCLINIC/KerwinHartfordspeech1006.pdf

Kerwin, Donald, “Justice for Immigrants: A Faith-Based Perspective” New Americans, 5, (Fall 2006).  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/ArticlesbyCLINIC/
NewAmericansVol5Issue2Fall2006_Kerwin.pdf

Kerwin, Donald. “Two Disasters.” Commonweal  (19 May 2006).  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/ArticlesbyCLINIC/Commonweal051906.html

Kerwin, Donald. “Immigration Reform and the Catholic Church.” Migration Information Source (1 May 2006), reprinted in Catholic Online (8 May 2006).  Available online at http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=395

Kerwin, Donald. “Immigrant Voices, Natural Rights and Security in the Catholic Tradition.” Origins, 34 (7 April 2005).  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/ArticlesbyCLINIC/origins_aug05.pdf

Kerwin, Donald. “Catholic Social Teaching on Migration on the 40th Anniversary of Pacem in Terris.” Journal of Catholic Social Thought 1 (Winter 2004).

Kerwin, Donald. “Honoring the Rights of Migrants: A Catholic Approach to Migration and National Security.” Origins, 33 (28 August 2003), reprinted in All Come Bearing Gifts, Proceedings of the National Migration Conference 2003. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Washington, DC: 2003).  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/ArticlesbyCLINIC/origins_aug03.pdf

Kerwin, Donald. “Crossing the Border.” America. 9 December 2002.  Available online at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=2657

Kerwin, Donald. “National Catholic Agencies Partner With U.S. – Mexico Border Dioceses to Respond to Multifaceted Needs.” Migration World, 29  (2001)

Kerwin, Donald. “They Are Us.” America, 19 November 2001.  Available online at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=1245

Kerwin, Donald .“Newcomers: Legal Realities, the Christian Imagination and the Judeo-Christian Tradition of Hope.” Migration World, 36 (1998).

Love, Maryann Cusimano. ed. Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda, 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadworth, 2007.  [The contributors discuss pressing global problems, attempted and possible global solutions, the players involved, and the implications for sovereignty. Chapter 8 treats “People on the Move: Refugees, IDPs and Migrants”.]

Ryan, Maura A. “Boundaries or Barriers?: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Challenge of Solidarity,” In Maura A. Ryan and Todd D. Whitmore, eds. The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

Piston, Michelle R. and John J. Hoeffner.  Stepping Out of the Brain Drain:  Applying Catholic Social Teaching in a New Era of Migration.  New York: Lexington Books, 2007.

Riemer Nina, ed.  Refugees, Morality and Public Policy: The Jesuit Lenten Seminars 2002 & 2000. Victoria: David Lovell Publishing, 2002.

Ryscavage, Richard. “The Catholic Church’s Rich Understanding of U.S. Immigration.” In All Things, Winter 2006-2007.  Available online at http://www.jesuit.org/PublicationsMedia/InAllThings/InAllThingsArchive/default.aspx

Samway, Patrick. Educating Darfur Refugees: A Jesuit’s Efforts in Chad.  Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2007.  [The author’s journal while working in three desolate desert camps for Darfur refugees along the Chadian border.]

United Nations. 2004 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development. New York: United Nations, 2005. [The trafficking of people for prostitution and forced labor is an area of increased concern to the international community.  This Survey sets out recommendations to improve the situation of migrant, refugee and trafficked women.]

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DETENTION

Aber, Shaina. “A Brewing Storm: The Detention of Illegal Immigrants.” America, June 18. 2007.  Available online at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10013

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. “The Needless Detention of Immigrants in the United States.”  Washington, D.C.: August  2000.  Available online at http://www.cliniclegal.org/Publications/AtRisk/atrisk4.pdf

Dow, Mark.  American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [The author sheds light on the netherworld of immigration detention and compels us to confront how we treat the most vulnerable and voiceless among us.]

Guzman Molina, Ana Amalia.  The Power of Love: My Experience in a U.S. Immigration Jail. EPICA, 2003.  [The author presents an insider’s narrative of 16 months inside the walls of a federal immigration center near Los Angeles, CA.]

Jesuit Refugee Service. "Flee for Your Life and Risk Imprisonment without Crime." Rome, 2006.  Available online at http://www.jrs.net/news/index.php?lang=en&sid=645

Jesuit Refugee Service-Europe. Administrative Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants: Common Position of JRS in Europe. Available online at http://www.jrsusa.org/docs/
JRS_EUROPE_POSITION_ON_DETENTION_2008.pdf

Physicians for Human Rights and The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers.  2003.  Available online at http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-persprison.html

Ramji-Nogales, Jaya, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag. "Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication." Stanford Law Review 60, pp. 295- 412 (2007).

Talbot, Margaret, “The Lost Children,” The New Yorker, March 3, 2008.  [A report on what tougher detention policies mean for illegal immigrant families.]  Available online at  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_talbot

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Locking up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families.” Joint report, February 2007.  Available online at http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/famdeten.pdf