The hopes and push factors propelling migrant women, together with gender-specific threats they face, challenge simplistic slogans about immigration today. Their experiences and those who accompany them witness to the signs of the times, the value and limitations of Catholic social teaching principles for countering injustice and inhospitality, and ways forward marked by hope, resistance, and structural change.
About our speaker - Dr. Kristin Heyer holds the Joseph Chair in Theology at Boston College. She earned a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. Prior to returning to BC as a faculty member, she taught at Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University. Her scholarship and teaching focus on topics such as moral agency, migration, social inequality, and modern Catholic social teaching.
Dr. Heyer authored the award-winning books Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration and Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism , as well as dozens of articles and book chapters. She is co-editor of six books, including Christianity and the Law of Migration.
Professor Heyer is a recent past-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the principal association of Catholic theologians in North America and the largest professional society of theologians in the world. Her work has global reach. She serves as a co-chair of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, an international network of scholars and practitioners in the field of theological ethics. She has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and India on topics such as immigration, the common good tradition, Catholic social movements, and feminist ethics.
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