Preface: Besetting DangerAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction 1 The Bones in the Valley 2 Politics as a Project of Redemption 3 Pernicious Messianism in the Borderlands 4 Between Worlds 5 Argument Summary PART 1. Realism, Bodies Politic, and Bodies Remembered1 Contesting Realism in the Christian Ethics of Migration 1 Introduction: Christian Ethics and Political Theology 2 Christian Realism 3 Realism and the Christian Ethics of Migration 4 Hopelessness in the Borderlands 5 An Eschatological Imperative2 The Remembrance of Dismembered Bodies 1 Mortalities on the Margins and the Danger of Spectacle 2 The Ethical Demand 3 The Distribution of the Sensible 4 "Las Madres/No Mas Lágrimas:" a Metonymic Encounter with the Dead 5 Metonymy in the Scriptural Imaginary PART 2. Cain & Abel3 Politics Haunted 1 Strangers or Estranged Siblings? 2 Fratricide: a Problem of Beginning 3 Abel's Ghost: a Theological Case for Haunting 4 Troubled Closure: Haunting and the Politics of Self-Determination 5 A Riven Condition4 Exorcising the Ghosts 1 Prevention through Deterrence as Practical Solution 2 The Making of the 'Alien' 3 Legal Rights and the Dignification of Demands 4 Disappeared in the Landscape 5 Fatal Contradictions 6 Can These Bones Live? a Provisional Answer to the Question PART 3. Samaritans & Sojourners5 The Samaritan's Virtue 1 From Contempt to Compassion 2 "Who is my Neighbor?": the Parable's Context & Stakes 3 On the Road from Jerusalem to Jericho: the Neighbor as Object 4 Moved by Compassion: the Neighbor as Ethical Subject 5 Compassion and Law6 A Samaritan in the Sonoran 1 What Must We Do to Live? 2 Encounters on a Different Road 3 What is in the Law? How Do You Read It? 4 The Samaritan Moved with Compassion 5 The Works of the Nomikos Conclusion: Political Theology in the US-Mexico Borderlands 1 In Failure's Wake 2 Sin, Redemption, and the Collectively Self-Determining State 3 Weak Messianic Force & the Law 4 A Case for Hope 5 The Bones in the ValleysReferencesIndex.