No Longer Strangers: Cultural Integration in Church and Society in Ireland

What is it like to be a refugee? How does a displaced person adapt to new culture? What can host communities do to enable newcomers and hosts to bond in mutual undertanding?Is multi-culturalism the best policy to choose, or are there other possibilities? What happens when asylum-seekers or refugees join a parish or a Church congregation? Questions such as these are not confined to any one country. Movements of population, whether because of war or for economic reasons, now occur worldwide. No country can afford to avoid the questions or overlook the opportunities which arise because of the inter-mingling of peoples of different backgrounds. The contributors to No Long Strangers examine questions concerning the experience of migration, what it means for the migrants, what it means for host communities, and what it can mean for understanding within the human family.