Abstract

HEWITT, Roderick R. From welcomed migrants to alleged terrorists: A missio-political reading of Exodus 1:8-2:10. STJ [online]. 2015, vol.1, n.2, pp.447-470. ISSN 2413-9467.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/STJ.2015.V1N2.A21.

This article examines the plight of migrants by conversing Brian Wren's poetic song, Travellers, with a missio-political reading of Exodus 1:8 - 2:10. Most migrants are people on the move fleeing from untenable threats to their lives from dysfunctional states of the Global South. The article argues that the socio-economic and political forces that deny the Hebrew migrants in ancient Egypt fullness of life as described in Exodus 1:8-2:10 are still at work in the threats that contemporary migrants face. Wren's poetic song offers a life-affirming discourse that postulate an alternative missio-political response that affirm human dignity, human rights, human respect and a commitment to justice that facilitate "fullness of life".

Keywords : Exodus 1:8-2:10; Brian Wren; Travellers"; politics of migration; refugees; human dignity.

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