A timely intervention in a topic of burning ethical importance that will only grow in relevance in our lifetimes. A humane and theological call for the church to be a voiceand handsof welcome to the dispossessed and vulnerable.
- Dr. Brian Brock, Professor of Moral and Practical Theology; University of Aberdeen
Prisoners of Hope takes the reader deep into one of the ground zeros of the contemporary migrant crisis: the island of Malta. Beyond the headlines, the book attends to the voices of refugees caught in a seemingly endless and inescapable maze of detention regimes, bureaucracy, and dead ends. Dr. McConnells unflinching protest against the migrants entrapment in such a state of exception is an important contribution to moral theology and the analysis of contemporary European migration policy.
- Dr. Christopher Brittain, Dean of Divinity and Margaret E. Fleck Chair in Anglican Studies, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Nathan McConnells Prisoners of Hope deftly brings together engagement with migration studies, theology, and his own experience in Malta to help the church learn what it means to be hospitable and a place of inclusion to those migrants who have been otherwise socially and politically excluded. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, Seyla Benhabib, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the book will prove of interest to students of migration, political philosophy, and Christian ethics.
- Dr. Michael Laffin, Independent Scholar
