Published In
Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas
ISBN
978-1-137-55074-3
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Subjects
Political ethics, Conflict resolution, Compassion, Hostility (Psychology), United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy, Hazleton (Pa.) -- Social conditions, Donald Trump (1946- ) -- Political and social views
Abstract
“Compassionate migration” carries social significance and implies moral criteria. This practical notion should provide means to review, envision, and develop laws, policies, and practices for how we engage noncitizens and build political community within wider human relations. Yet “compassion” is an elastic concept; competing discourses and practices reveal conflicting meanings, assumptions, and orientations. “Compassionate migration” needs criteria upon which its “compassion” is evaluated, including how this notion evolves and what practical results it inspires—such as social cohesion, immigrant integration, strengthened community, and societal transformation. Bookending the chapter’s conceptually driven discussion are two recent, and opposite, case studies in the American immigration debate: Donald Trump’s odd rhetoric of “compassion” and Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s normative shift from a locus of “enmification” toward a community of “Thanksmas.”
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29423
Citation Details
Shuford, J. (2017). The Compassion of “Compassionate Migration”. In Compassionate migration and regional policy in the Americas (pp. 217-236). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Description
This is the author's version of a chapter that subsequently appeared in "Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas," S.W. Bender & W. F. Arrocha (eds.), published by Palgrave Macmillan (2017), pp. 217-236. May be found at https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55074-3.