A Political Theology for the US-Mexico Borderlands

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A Political Theology for the US-Mexico Borderlands is written by Bryan M. Ellrod and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004721525 (ISBN 10) and 9789004721524 (ISBN 13).

Since 1994, over 4,000 human remains have been recovered from the Sonoran Desert. Victims of a border enforcement strategy that weaponizes the landscape against migrants, the ever-growing ledger of the dead counts the human cost at which the present political paradigm is secured. Through a series of readings of biblical texts, informed by philosophical, theological, and legal theory, this book facilitates a reckoning between the self-determining polity and the excluded outsider’s ethical demand. Finding in their demand the motivation for novel forms of legal interpretation and political agency, Ellrod sketches a hopeful, life-affirming alternative to Realist Political Theologies of Migration.