Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: How Korean American DACA Recipients Make Sense of Their Lives2 What Is DACA and Why Does It Matter?3 Why Do the Stories of DACA Recipients Matter? And Why Do They Matter Now?4 Outline of ChaptersPart 1: Examining Story-Shaped Lives in Pastoral Theology1 Documenting the Undocumented Stories: Pastoral Theology and Narrative Approaches to Qualitative Research1 Seeking Care and Justice: The Communal-Contextual Turn in Pastoral Theology2 Caring through Human Stories: Narrative Turn in Pastoral Theology and Care3 Documenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean American DACA Recipients4 Conclusion2 We Are the Stories We Tell: Narrative Identity Formation and Development1 The Ethical Narrative Identity Thesis2 Psychological Perspectives on Narrative Identity3 Reading Lives: Employing Narrative Identity in Pastoral Theology and Care4 Religion as Personal Ideology in Self-Narratives5 Conclusion: Why We Tell Religious StoriesPart 2: Documenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean Americans3 Looking Back: Uplifting the Korean American Stories Seldom Heard1 Introducing the Storytellers: Korean American DACA Recipients2 The Background Story: Becoming Undocumented in the United States3 Undocumented Family Stories: Navigating Immigrant Family Dynamics as Narrative Environment4 Undocumented Stories of Pursuing Education: Navigating Public Schools as Narrative Environments5 The Silenced Voices: Living under the Shadow of Model Minority Myth6 Conclusion4 Seeing the Present: The Violence of Uncertainty, Identity Foreclosure, and the Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life1 Understanding Uncertainty in the Stories of DACA Recipients2 The Violence of Uncertainty: When Uncertainty Becomes Everyday Reality3 Narrative Identity Experiencing and Processing the Violence of Uncertainty Narrative Identity Foreclosure: My Story Is Over4 The Uncertain Self Experiencing Narrative Foreclosure5 The Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life5 Looking Forward: Telling the Religious Stories in the Face of Uncertainty1 Telling Religious Stories as Religious Coping and Meaning Making2 Prayer as Telling Religious Stories with God3 Telling Religious Stories as Pastoral Conversation with Undocumented Young Immigrants4 Conclusion: Empowering Immigrants to Be Interpreters and Narrators of Their StoriesBibliographyIndex