Systemic Terror, Silent Mourning, and Postcolonial Hope: The Case of Forcibly Separated Migrant Families
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Ilsup Ahn
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Jaeyeon Lucy Chung
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, it investigates how the historical and structural injustice has to do with the Central American migration crisis in the U. S. Second, this paper explores immense yet largely unrecognized socio-psychological trauma that forcibly separated migrant families, especially children and their parents must endure. Lastly, this paper develops the concept of postcolonial hope as a practical theological response to the Central American migration crisis and the US biopolitical separation of migrant families. The authors argue that postcolonial hope is conceived as people’s resistance against the state’s anti-immigration biopolitics to reckon with the structural sins of dehumanization and terrorization.
Zusammenfassung
Der Aufsatz erörtert zunächst historische und strukturelle Hintergründe der US-amerikanischen Politik gegenüber Migrant*innen aus Mittelamerika. Anschließend führt er vor Augen, welche Traumata durch staatliche Maßnahmen wie die Trennung von Familien an der Grenze entstehen. Auf dieser Grundlage entwickelt der Aufsatz sodann das Konzept einer „postkolonialen Hoffnung“. Diese wird dargelegt als eine Form des Widerstands gegen die konkrete „Biopolitik“ des Staates und zugleich gegen das ihr zugrundeliegende, strukturelle Unrecht.
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- Editorial
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- Living Between: Exploring a Framework of Spirituality for Teachers and Students in Catholic Schools
- Theological Wiggle Room as a Resource in Ordinary Theology: Significance for Ecclesiology, Leadership, and Personal Development
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- Research Report
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- Book Review
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