Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 196 pp.
Contains index
Series: Politics of Citizenship and Migration
ISBN 978-3-031-23379-1 (ebook); 978-3-031-23378-4 (print)
CC BY
"This open access book brings into dialogue migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Migration has always been part of spiritual development. The current 'refugee crisis' has brought to the fore debates regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the 'refugee crisis' with Islam, and fear of the 'Other.' Many religious leaders and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls while many humanitarians use religious values to welcome and assist refugees. This book focuses on politics and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion; and faith actors' responses to forced migration." (Publisher description)
1 What's God Got to Do with It? Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Izabella Main, 1
PART I. POLITICS, VALUES, AND DISCOURSES: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR
2 Contesting Flexible Solidarity: Secular and Religious Support for Refugees in Hungary / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, 21
3 Thou Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel / Agnieszka Bielewska and Nir Cohen, 45
PART II. LIVED EXPERIENCES OF RELIGION: BELONGING AND IDENTITY
4 Time and Topos in Migratory Trajectories: Mapping Memory and Lived Experiences of Religion Among Syrian Refugees in Norway / Ingrid Loland, 67
5 "Emerging Forms of Authority in Land Access?": The Occult and Witchcraft Among Malawian Migrants in Peri-urban Zimbabwe / Johannes Bhanye, 89
6 Religion Constructed, Imagined, and Experienced: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey / Izabela Kujawa, 109
PART III. FAITH AND FAITH ACTORS IN RESPONSES TO FORCED MIGRATION
7 We Shall Overcome: A Case Study of the LGBT Asylum Task Force, a Parish Ministry / Max Niedzwiecki, 125
8 Religion Resettles Refugees: Religion's Role in Integration in the United States / Todd Scribner, Matthew C. Weiner, and Katherine Clifton, 147
9 "I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me in": A Christian Perspective on the Humanitarian Crisis at the Poland-Belarus Border / Katarzyna Marianna Durajska, 165
10 Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Izabella Main, 179
PART I. POLITICS, VALUES, AND DISCOURSES: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR
2 Contesting Flexible Solidarity: Secular and Religious Support for Refugees in Hungary / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, 21
3 Thou Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel / Agnieszka Bielewska and Nir Cohen, 45
PART II. LIVED EXPERIENCES OF RELIGION: BELONGING AND IDENTITY
4 Time and Topos in Migratory Trajectories: Mapping Memory and Lived Experiences of Religion Among Syrian Refugees in Norway / Ingrid Loland, 67
5 "Emerging Forms of Authority in Land Access?": The Occult and Witchcraft Among Malawian Migrants in Peri-urban Zimbabwe / Johannes Bhanye, 89
6 Religion Constructed, Imagined, and Experienced: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey / Izabela Kujawa, 109
PART III. FAITH AND FAITH ACTORS IN RESPONSES TO FORCED MIGRATION
7 We Shall Overcome: A Case Study of the LGBT Asylum Task Force, a Parish Ministry / Max Niedzwiecki, 125
8 Religion Resettles Refugees: Religion's Role in Integration in the United States / Todd Scribner, Matthew C. Weiner, and Katherine Clifton, 147
9 "I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me in": A Christian Perspective on the Humanitarian Crisis at the Poland-Belarus Border / Katarzyna Marianna Durajska, 165
10 Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Izabella Main, 179
