Theology of human mobility. From hospitality to the right not to have to migrate

José Manuel Aparicio, Professor of the Faculty of Theology, has published his study Teología de la movilidad humana. De la hospitalidad al derecho a no tener que emigrar at Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (BAC) publishing, of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (2024, ISBN: 978-84-220-2362-3), in the collection 'Estudios y ensayos'.

The following is a summary of this new theological work:

The present study is born with the firm intention of putting words to the voice of the Church regarding the problem of human mobility, especially when it is a question of forced mobility, and not free and voluntary. It is a complex issue on which no effort should be spared, both in its exposition and in the search for concrete answers. This essay attempts to contribute to this by helping to raise awareness of the seriousness of the issue, by explaining the Catholic position on migration, by giving keys and tools to all pastoral agents dedicated to this phenomenon and, in short, by presenting human mobility as a space for dialogue and encounter. Of encounter with God and, as an immediate consequence, with the other, with the stranger, in whom we recognise not only a valid interlocutor, but above all, above all, a brother or sister.

The Theology of Human Mobility can be purchased by clicking here.

Professor José Manuel Aparicio Malo holds a PhD in Theology from the Department of Moral Theology and Praxis of Christian Life and is an expert, among other disciplines, in Social Morality and human mobility. He belongs to the research groups of the University Institute of Migration Studies and the Chair of Refugees and Forced Migrants. Among his publications, he is the coordinator of the work Cristianismo y ética social ( Comillas, 2022).

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