RT Article
T1 Systemic Terror, Silent Mourning, and Postcolonial Hope: The Case of Forcibly Separated Migrant Families
JF International journal of practical theology
VO 25
IS 2
SP 263
OP 279
A1 Ahn, Ilsup
A1 Chung, Jaeyeon Lucy
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1807267148
AB 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.
K1 postcolonial hope
K1 Practical Theology
K1 separated migrant families
K1 state terror
K1 structural injustice
K1 Trauma
DO 10.1515/ijpt-2020-0074