Uprooted: Refugees and Forced Migrants

Fifty million people roam the world without homes, communities, countries. They are the uprooted, the refugees, the outcasts forced to flee from war, persecution, famine or economic exploitation. What they all have in common is that they leave their homes out of fear. Uprooted, Refugees and Forced Migrants is a compelling, often unsettling exposé of the unfathomable reality of 50 million people in flight. Where did they come from? Where are they heading? What are the fears that drive them into unknown lands? Uprooted, explores the economic, political, ecological and religious conditions that tyrannize and ostracize large groups of people. A detailed chapter on Rwanda untangles the complex causes underlying the ethnic hatred and genocide that have resulted in more than 2 million refugees. The United States and Canada are not spared in this book. Within the relatively affluent confines of two First World countries, there exists millions of people without homes as well as millions of refugees seeking homes with in our borders. Today's stranger at our doors has rekindled latent hostilities and prejudices in the descendants of those who sought new beginnings in earlier times. Finally, Uprooted, examines our role as Christians and our responsibility to reclaim the biblical tradition of "the church of the stranger".