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Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience
Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty
Series: - Theology in Practice, Volume: 13
Author:
In Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience, Eunil David Cho examines how Korean American undocumented young adults tell religious stories to cope with the violence of uncertainty and construct new meanings for themselves. Based on in-depth interviews guided by narrative inquiry, the book follows the stories of ten Korean American DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients who have found their lives in limbo. While many experience narrative foreclosure, believing âMy story is over,â Cho highlights how telling religious stories enables them to imagine and create new stories for themselves not as shunned outsiders, but as beloved children of God.
Eunil David Cho, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling and Co-director of the Center for Practical Theology at Boston University School of Theology.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
â1âUndocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: How Korean American DACA Recipients Make Sense of Their Lives
â2âWhat Is DACA and Why Does It Matter?
â3âWhy Do the Stories of DACA Recipients Matter? And Why Do They Matter Now?
â4âOutline of Chapters
1 Documenting the Undocumented Stories: Pastoral Theology and Narrative Approaches to Qualitative Research
â1âSeeking Care and Justice: The Communal-Contextual Turn in Pastoral Theology
â2âCaring through Human Stories: Narrative Turn in Pastoral Theology and Care
â3âDocumenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean American DACA Recipients
â4âConclusion
2 We Are the Stories We Tell: Narrative Identity Formation and Development
â1âThe Ethical Narrative Identity Thesis
â2âPsychological Perspectives on Narrative Identity
â3âReading Lives: Employing Narrative Identity in Pastoral Theology and Care
â4âReligion as Personal Ideology in Self-Narratives
â5âConclusion: Why We Tell Religious Stories
3 Looking Back: Uplifting the Korean American Stories Seldom Heard
â1âIntroducing the Storytellers: Korean American DACA Recipients
â2âThe Background Story: Becoming Undocumented in the United States
â3âUndocumented Family Stories: Navigating Immigrant Family Dynamics as Narrative Environment
â4âUndocumented Stories of Pursuing Education: Navigating Public Schools as Narrative Environments
â5âThe Silenced Voices: Living under the Shadow of Model Minority Myth
â6âConclusion
4 Seeing the Present: The Violence of Uncertainty, Identity Foreclosure, and the Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
â1âUnderstanding Uncertainty in the Stories of DACA Recipients
â2âThe Violence of Uncertainty: When Uncertainty Becomes Everyday Reality
â3âNarrative Identity Experiencing and Processing the Violence of Uncertainty Narrative Identity Foreclosure: My Story Is Over
â4âThe Uncertain Self Experiencing Narrative Foreclosure
â5âThe Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
5 Looking Forward: Telling the Religious Stories in the Face of Uncertainty
â1âTelling Religious Stories as Religious Coping and Meaning Making
â2âPrayer as Telling Religious Stories with God
â3âTelling Religious Stories as Pastoral Conversation with Undocumented Young Immigrants
â4âConclusion: Empowering Immigrants to Be Interpreters and Narrators of Their Stories
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
â1âUndocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: How Korean American DACA Recipients Make Sense of Their Lives
â2âWhat Is DACA and Why Does It Matter?
â3âWhy Do the Stories of DACA Recipients Matter? And Why Do They Matter Now?
â4âOutline of Chapters
Part 1: Examining Story-Shaped Lives in Pastoral Theology
1 Documenting the Undocumented Stories: Pastoral Theology and Narrative Approaches to Qualitative Research
â1âSeeking Care and Justice: The Communal-Contextual Turn in Pastoral Theology
â2âCaring through Human Stories: Narrative Turn in Pastoral Theology and Care
â3âDocumenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean American DACA Recipients
â4âConclusion
2 We Are the Stories We Tell: Narrative Identity Formation and Development
â1âThe Ethical Narrative Identity Thesis
â2âPsychological Perspectives on Narrative Identity
â3âReading Lives: Employing Narrative Identity in Pastoral Theology and Care
â4âReligion as Personal Ideology in Self-Narratives
â5âConclusion: Why We Tell Religious Stories
Part 2: Documenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean Americans
3 Looking Back: Uplifting the Korean American Stories Seldom Heard
â1âIntroducing the Storytellers: Korean American DACA Recipients
â2âThe Background Story: Becoming Undocumented in the United States
â3âUndocumented Family Stories: Navigating Immigrant Family Dynamics as Narrative Environment
â4âUndocumented Stories of Pursuing Education: Navigating Public Schools as Narrative Environments
â5âThe Silenced Voices: Living under the Shadow of Model Minority Myth
â6âConclusion
4 Seeing the Present: The Violence of Uncertainty, Identity Foreclosure, and the Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
â1âUnderstanding Uncertainty in the Stories of DACA Recipients
â2âThe Violence of Uncertainty: When Uncertainty Becomes Everyday Reality
â3âNarrative Identity Experiencing and Processing the Violence of Uncertainty Narrative Identity Foreclosure: My Story Is Over
â4âThe Uncertain Self Experiencing Narrative Foreclosure
â5âThe Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
5 Looking Forward: Telling the Religious Stories in the Face of Uncertainty
â1âTelling Religious Stories as Religious Coping and Meaning Making
â2âPrayer as Telling Religious Stories with God
â3âTelling Religious Stories as Pastoral Conversation with Undocumented Young Immigrants
â4âConclusion: Empowering Immigrants to Be Interpreters and Narrators of Their Stories
Bibliography
Index
Scholars and doctoral students of practical and pastoral theology, theological educators, ministers, and faith-based practitioners who work at the intersection of immigration, religion, and race.