Driven from Home by J Bryan Hehir

Driven from Home by J Bryan Hehir

Advances the discussion on how best to protect and assist the growing number of persons who have been forced from their homes and proposes a human rights framework to guide political and policy responses to forced migration. This title brings together contributors from several disciplines.

"Finally the book that matches asking the right hard questions about forced migration with providing profoundly thoughtful, visionary yet pragmatic responses from a range of perspectivesThis bold and intellectually honest, clear, and accessible analysis of one of the most pressing moral and political questions of our time is for students and scholars, national and international policymakers, opinion leaders, and ethically engaged citizens everywhere."-Abdullah Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University "This book brings renewed attention and perspectives to the economic, ethical, and political complexity of assisting those forced to seek lives elsewhere. The effort to blend secular and theological imperatives may not provide solutions to every problem but its offers many of the tools we need to find them."-Loren B. Landau, director, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg "Driven from Home discusses how the 'duty to protect' refugees should be defined and implemented and how the international community might better fulfill their responsibility to the world's uprooted."-Gil Loescher, University of Oxford "In this globalized world, too many people are forced to leave their homes, displaced by conflict, disasters or harsh economic conditions. Systems designed to guarantee their protection are either over-burdened or simply not keeping up. As a result, many are falling through the cracks. This volume raises challenging questions and offers keen insight into expanding our understanding of 'the protection gaps' as we strive to assist some of the most vulnerable people in our world."-Ken Hackett, president, Catholic Relief Services

David Hollenbach, SJ, is director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and holds the Human Rights and International Justice University Chair at Boston College. He is the editor of Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa and author of The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics.

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ISBN 13	9781589016460
ISBN 10	1589016467
Title	Driven from Home
Author	David Hollenbach
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Georgetown University Press
Year published	2010-05-01
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of Catholic Press Association, Social Concerns (United States)., Winner of Human Rights Section: Best Book Award (United States)., Winner of Catholic Press Association Book Award for Social Teaching (United States)., Winner of Award for Excellence (United States).
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