Toward a Theology of Immigration: Embracing the Stranger

Saturday, April 14, 2007
10:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m.
Location: Erdman Hall, Cooper Conference Room, Art Studio, Adams House Living Room

This is a conference for religious community-based leaders and ministry professionals. Its purpose is to present a holistic analysis and in-depth reflection on some of the important issues related to immigration today: biblical/theological perspectives, demographic trends, labor, schooling, housing, public policy, and legal issues. The conference will provide those in active ministries the opportunity to address these issues with their respective communities, as well as personally, in a setting that promotes a thoughtful discussion of the event issues, while affirming a warm yet rigorous discussion. The format includes two keynote addresses, break-out discussion groups, and a panel discussion.

Conference Leaders:

María Patricia Fernández-Kelly is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and faculty associate in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Dr. Fernández-Kelly is interested in economic development, gender, class, race and ethnicity, migration and the global economy, and women in the labor force. Her Ph.D. in social anthropology is from Rutgers University, and she also holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. She was on the Board of Advisors for the PBS documentary Americas, and coproduced the Emmy-award-winning documentary The Global Assembly Line.

Samuel Cruz is senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, New York, and a lecturer on religion, culture, race/racism, oppression, and diversity for the Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department at Rutgers University. Dr. Cruz has a Ph.D. in religion and society from the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University. His research over the past decade has centered on Pentecostalism and African-based Caribbean/Latina religions. He is also a member of the Immigration Task Force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Audience: students, clergy, advocacy groups

Registration Fee:
Commuter: $25 (program only)
Students: $15 (with a valid ID)

Contact Hours: 4

Continuing Education Units: 0.4

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“Fernández-Kelly is
‘…a formidable presence
in the study of
immigration, work,
and family in
Mexico and the
United States.’”
—Viviana A. Zelizer,
Princeton University

María Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Samuel Cruz