Theology of migrations: theoretical and normative foundations of its configuration
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- Forced migration
- Environmental refugees
- Economic migrants
- Theology
- Vulnerability
- Life care
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The results of the investigation that sees modern migration as a multidimensional phenomenon and that nowadays knows the renewal of the migratory causes based on poverty, hunger and circumstances of environmental deterioration, demanding from the current corpus iuris of the Statute of the Refugee a review of the causes of protection of new migrants. It understands that the way to affirm individual freedoms and the vocation of a response to the intercultural dynamics of the globalized world must have as its center of gravity the foundation of Christian humanism for the care of life and the protection of the migrant, as a human person in situation of fragility or vulnerability, which deserves respect and satisfaction of their human rights for the human dignity of which they are entitled. It starts from the category of homo peregrinus and the pilgrimage of man, on the earthly and spiritual plane, in transit towards eternal life, which, from the eschatological point of view, shapes the “Theology of Pilgrimage” coined by Saint Augustine of Hippo. The epistemological approach between the Augustinian “Theology of Pilgrimage” -focused on the spiritual and theological plane-and the nascent “Theology of Migrations” is analyzed, having as a main idea the practice of love and charity coined by the Doctor of grace, later translated as a culture of care for life, the protection of the person, the reception of migrants, as fragile and vulnerable human beings, who, in the opinion of recent contributions by Francis, can be protected, with a Christian sense , putting into practice, in order to achieve their integral human development, the guiding verbs of their newest and pertinent migratory proposal: welcome, protect, promote and integrate.
