What is it about?
Rethinking immigrant integration from the perspective of religious virtue of hospitality. This article begins with a reflection on nativism and ethnocultural nationalism through the prism of the killing of 22 persons by a white nationalist at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on August 3, 2019. It then pivots to a standard definition of integration as a multigenerational process in which immigrant and host communities mutually negotiate boundaries and equally contribute to building a culture that embraces differences as a blessing and a gift. It distinguishes integration from the related concept of assimilation and from the instrumental virtue of tolerance. It also addresses the challenge of cultural encapsulation, which can impede integration.
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Why is it important?
Integration is crucially important to immigrants, their families, receiving and sending states, and the international community. This paper provides a new and more generous way to look at this timeless need and human phenomenon.
Perspectives
Hospitality is a key virtue in the Abrahamic religions and migrants occupy an important role in virtually all religious traditions. Integration is an issue that can be informed and improved by the teachings and witness of faith communities.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: A vision of integration rooted in hospitality, July 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003042198-19.
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