Open Heart Open Arms

Welcoming Migrants to Ireland

Alan Hilliard

• Publisher: Messenger Publications
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781910248485
• eBook ISBN: 9781788122238
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

The aim of this booklet is to help foster an understanding of the plight of migrants that leads to action in the local faith community. Understanding of the role of the Christian towards the ever more present reality of migration and of the great Catholic tradition of hospitality is more important than ever, especially if we want or desire to make the appropriate response. The actions may not change situations in the homelands from which people migrated in the first place but the action we undertake in our neighborhood where we live together can have amazing impacts for the stranger, for us and for our community, eventually influencing policy via our mutual understanding of the way our world is functioning or not functioning. The information in this booklet will hopefully help nurture the instincts of those who wish to make a difference in the face of the current crisis which brings with it so much tragedy. Author interviewed on High Noon on Newstalk with George Hook.

NOTES

1 Umberto Eco, Five Moral Pieces (London: Secker and Warburg, 2001) p.95

2 http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/documents/rc_pc_migrants_doc_20040514_erga-migrantes-caritas-chris-ti_en.html =accessed July 13th 2016].

3 Pope Francis @Pontifex 6 June, 2016, 4am.

4 Zygmunt Bauman, Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011) p.44.

5 Michael Pye, The Edge of the World; How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are (London: Penguin-Random House, 2014) pp.77-78.

6 Irish Times, Generation Emigration, Life and Style, http://www.irish-times.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration/life-abroad-emigrating-to-australia-was-the-best-decision-i-have-ever-made-1.2620813 =accessed 01/05/2016]

7 International Organisation for Migrants (IOM) April 2014 http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/pdf/commission/2014/system/Agenda%20item%204/IOM_Item4.pdf =accessed 12/06/2016]

8 Warsan Shire, ‘Home’, 2009 http://seekershub.org/blog/2015/09/home-warsan-shire/ =accessed 03/05/2016]

9 Patrcia Kennedy, Welcoming the Stranger; Irish Migrant Welfare in Britain Since 1957, (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2015) p.28.

10 Michael Dummett (2001) On Immigration and Refugees, (Oxford: Routledge, 2001) p.90

11 Ibid p.101

12 ‘The Day Britain took in 27,000 Refugees’, Channel 4, http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/day-britain-27000-refugees/25733 =accessed 14/05/2016]

13 Quoted in Robert Kanigel, On an Irish Island, (New York: Random House, 2012) p.221

14 Michael Dummett, pp.125-26.

15 Department of Justice. Working Group to Report to Government Working Group on the Protection Process on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers. (2015) http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Report%20to%20Government%20on%20Improvements%20to%20the%20Protection%20Process,%20including%20Direct%20Provision%20and%20Supports%20to%20Asylum%20Seekers.pdf/Files/Report%20to%20Government%20on%20Improvements%20to%20the%20Protection%20Process,%20including%20Direct%20Provision%20and%20Supports%20to%20Asylum%20Seekers.pdf =accessed 18/05/2016]

16 Ibid e.g. 4.162

17 Ibid 4.80

18 Ibid 4.93

19 Ibid

20 Ibid 4.206

21 Ibid, Appendices p.311

22 Angelus Message 19 May 2015, Vatican City http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2015/documents/papa-francesco_regina-coeli_20150419.html =accessed 23/05/2016]

23 William O’Neill, ‘Christian Hospitality and Solidarity with the Stranger, in Kerwin and Jill Marie Gerschutz,(Ed) And You Welcomed Me; Migration and Catholic Social Teaching , (ML: Lexington Books, 2009) p.150

24 EMCC para 41

25 Deirdre Cornell, Jesus Was a Migrant, (New York: Orbis Books, 2014) p.61

26 This insight was shared with me by Rev. Professor Daniel Groody, CSC PhD, when I visited the campus a number of years ago. He is Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of Immigration Initiatives at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

27 Pierre-François De Béthune, By Faith and Hospitality; The Monastic Tradition as a Model for Interreligious Encounter (Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2002) vii

28 A glass ceiling refers to an inherent prejudice that subtly puts barriers in the way of people who move upwards in an organisation due to colour, creed, gender etc.

29 I would like to acknowledge the Work of Fulata Moyo: ‘Traffic Violations’: Hospitality, Foreignness and Exploitation – a Contextual Biblical Study of Ruth’ in The Feminist Journal...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Migration And The Migrant
• Migration And Catholic Teaching Tradition
• Migration And The Local Faith Community
• Conclusion
• Notes