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Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Exploring American Catholics’ Advocacy Work and Community Mobilization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers at a National and Local Level

Langford, Eleanor Vaughan Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Exploring American Catholics’ Advocacy Work and Community Mobilization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers at a National and Local Level. Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.

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Abstract

Through its affiliate agencies, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops resettles about 30% of the United States’ refugees, which is more than any of the other nine US Voluntary Agencies in cooperative agreements for resettlement. Moreover, Catholics have become dedicated, advocates for migrants amidst the rising anti-immigrant rhetoric dominating the media. Taking a mesolevel approach, this thesis analyzes the advocacy efforts of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, and the Western Regional Office of Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte to explore how Catholics advocate and mobilize support for refugees and asylum seekers at both a national and local level. Applying the concepts of strategic issue framing, administrative advocacy, and cross-sectoral/crossorganizational collaboration, it examines how Catholic theology and values are leveraged, transformed, and appropriated across secular and religiously plural contexts.

Type: Thesis (Master)
Supervisors (RUG):
SupervisorE-mailTutor organizationTutor email
Carpenedo Rodrigues, M.Faculteit GGW, Christendom en Ideeengeschiedenism.carpenedo.rodrigues@rug.nl
Tarusarira, J.Faculteit GGW, ReligiewetenschapJ.Tarusarira@rug.nl
Degree programme: Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation
Academic year: 2021-2022
Date of delivery: 16 Sep 2022 07:45
Last modified: 16 Sep 2022 07:45
URI: https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/652
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