Includes bibliographical references.

The world-wide context of migration: the example of Asia / Silvano M. Tomasi -- Africa: a refugee camp experience / Teresa Okure -- U.S. Hispanic Mestizaje and theological method / Robert S. Goizueta -- Migrations in the European community / Eddy Jadot -- 'We are here, because you were there': European colonialism and intercontinental migration / Pieter C. Emmer -- Analysis of racism / Virgil Elizondo -- The rights of immigrants and national integration / Dominque Schnapper -- People in flight: social and ethical reflections on the distribution of rights and duties / Dietmar Mieth -- Ethnocentricity and racism: does Christianity have a share in the responsibility? / Paul Schotsmans -- 'You know the heart of a stranger' (Exodus 23.9). A recollection of the Torah in the face of New Nationalisim and Xenophobia / Frank Crusemann -- Nationalism and the oppression of minorities: is there a right to ethnic identity? / Walter Lesch -- Immigration rights: an evalutaion / Antonio Martinez, Salome Adroher and Jose M. Ruiz de Huidobro -- A Homeland for transients. Towards an ethic of migrations / Denis Muller.