Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements

ISBN-13: 9783031233814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 244 str.

Elżbieta M. Goździak; Izabella Main

Opis

This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, and other humanitarian crises around the world have led to growing numbers of people seeking refuge both in the North and in the South. Migrating and seeking refuge have always been part and parcel of spiritual development. However, the current 'refugee crisis' in Europe and elsewhere in the world has brought to the fore fervent discussions regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the ‘refugee crisis’ with Islam, and fear of the ‘Other.’ Many religious institutions, spiritual leaders, and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls to resolve the ‘refugee crisis.’ However, equally many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates use religious values to inform their call to action to welcome refugees and migrants, provide them with assistance, and facilitate integration processes. This book includes three distinct but inter-related parts focusing, respectively, on politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion, with a particular emphasis on identity and belonging among various refugee groups; and faith and faith actors and their responses to forced migration.

Spis treści

Introduction: Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Part 1: Politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religion. - Chapter 1: Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Refugee Crises in Hungary (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Chapter 2: A journey to reconciliation? Asylum, religion and LGBTQ+ identities in the UK (Moira Dustin). - Chapter 3: Though Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel (Agnieszka Bielewska). - Part 2: Lived experiences of religion: Belonging and identity. -Chapter 4: Class solidarity and sectarian politics: Quarantina and the refugees of Beirut, Lebanon (Diala Lteif). - Chapter 5: Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: On the multidimensional role of religion in the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Ingrid Løland). - Chapter 6: Exclusive inclusion: “Cultural values,” racialization of religion, and religious difference in the Netherlands’ politics of belonging (Aukje Muller). - Part 3: Faith and faith actors in responses to forced migration. - Chapter 7: Local faith communities’ responses to forced migration (Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson). - Chapter 8: Religion Resettles Refugees: Case studies of religion's role in resettlement in the United States (Mathew Weiner). - Chapter 9: Religion and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: A Case Study with MCC Ontario (Luann Good Gingrich). - Chapter 10: The occult and land access among peri-urban refugees: The case of Lydiate informal settlement in Zimbabwe (Johannes Bhanye). - Conclusions: Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads (Elżbieta M. Goździak)

O autorze

Elżbieta M. Goździak is Visiting Professor in the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and Adjunct Lecturer at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. From 2002 to 2018, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown. In 2016, she was the George Soros Chair of Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, she served as an editor-in-chief of International Migration. Her recent books include: African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration (co-edited with Supang Chantavanich, 2022); Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat (2020); Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? (co-edited with I. Main and B. Suter, 2020); Children and Forced Migration: Durable Solutions during Transient Years (co-edited with Maris O. Ensor, 2017); Contested Childhoods: Growing Up in Migrancy (co-edited with Marie Louise Seeberg, 2016); and Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States: Reimagining Survivors (2016).

Izabella Main is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and Director of the Centre for Migration Studies. In 2019 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in ISIM at Georgetown University, USA. She authored three monographs and more than 30 chapters and journal articles. She co-edited several volumes: Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? (with Elżbieta M. Goździak and Brigitte Suter, 2020); Not Useful Enough: The Struggle of Immigrants in the Local Labor Market (with Natalia Bloch and Karolina Sydow, 2015); In health and illness. Research in medical anthropology and other fields (with Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka and Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk, 2012); and Refugees: The Theory and practices (with Izabela Czerniejewska, 2009).

Blurb

“This volume casts new light on an age-old issue--the role of religion in forced migration. With chapters by both academics and practitioners, it contributes immensely to our knowledge of forced migration and religion.”

—Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University

“A welcome addition to the expanding literature on religion and forced migration. It both expands the theoretical framing of how we think about the religion and forced migration nexus and enriches the available case studies. By combining perspectives from both advocates and scholars, this book breaks down the false dichotomy between them.”

—Dianna Shandy, Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College and Scholar-in-Residence, Elon University

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.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is Visiting Professor in the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Izabella Main is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology and Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.