Contents, Volume 11 #2

May/June 1993

Dossier

Refugees and Us

A religious, political
and personal look at
people who flee

Leader
Canada is showing a deep ambivalence about accepting refugees. Jack Costello SJ (p.2)

The Refugee Commandment (p.6)

Invitation to Be Neighbours. Mary Jo Leddy NDS

The Biblical Word. W. Gunther Plaut

Refugees and Governments (p.9)

History of Self-Interest. Harold Troper

Mulroney's Refugee Policy. Colin MacAdam

European Integration. James Hathaway

"We Are the World Leaders"
The retiring chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board reflects on Canada's role. An interview with Gordon Fairweather (p.18)

World Refugee Movements
Perspectives on why refugees flee and what can be done. Mark Raper SJ (p.22)

World refugee map.

The Struggle of Refugee Women
Refugee women have specific problems but also specific strengths. Elsa Tesfay Musa (p.26)

Refugee Flash Points (p.29)

Rom in Germany. Lutz Müller SJ

Mozambique's First Step. Michael Schultheis SJ

Burma-Thailand Border. Alan Nichols

Return to Guatemala. Richard A. Howard

Three Refugee Journeys (p.35)

Nothing to Do but Run. Hodo Ali Abdi

Fleeing to Avoid Murder. Manuel de Jesus Gómez

Packed like Sardines. Jeffrey Nhan Nguyen

St. Robert of Knaresborough
In medieval England, a bold hermit-husbandman welcomed the poor. Louisa Blair (p.39)

Books

The English Patient
By Michael Ondaatje. Reviewed by Monty Williams SJ (p.40)

Making Canada Work
By John Crispo.
The Next Canadian Century
By David Crane.
Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p.42)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Architectural vision and heroines of the Bible. (p.44)

Features

Letters
Searching for Ignatius's inspiration and Jesus the asexual cipher. (p.4)

Points
Wrong button hole, carts and horses, and Guernica's true author. (p.5)

Disputatio
Not all development is hostile to culture. Fabien Leboeuf (p.46)

Testament
Our selves and the Self of the Universe. Lawrence Kushner (p.47)