Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Introduction: Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements (Elzbieta M. Gozdziak).- Part 1: Politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religion.- Chapter 1: Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Refugee Crises in Hungary (Elzbieta M. Gozdziak).- 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: Faithand 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 (Elzbieta M. Gozdziak).