Religion and Migration

Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability

Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Ilona Nord

• Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783374061310
• eBook ISBN: 9783374061334
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Etica e religione

This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others.The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants' vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empirical, theological, sociological and anthropological insights emerged from postcolonial migration contexts.With contributions by Andrea Bieler, Jione Havea, Claudia Hoffmann, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Claudia Jahnel, Isolde Karle, Buhle Mpofu, Armin Nassehi, Ilona Nord, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Regina Polak, Ludger Pries, Thomas Reynolds, Harsha Walia, Jula Well, and Birgit Weyel.[Religion und Migration]Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit religiösen Diskursen und religiöser Praxis, die Gastfreundschaft im Kontext von Migration thematisieren. Dabei werden sowohl Potenziale identifiziert, die in Richtung größerer Gerechtigkeit und sozialer Verbundenheit weisen, als auch Ambivalenzen und Widersprüche.Das Buch präsentiert Beiträge, die verschiedene nationale, konfessionelle, kulturelle und ethnische Kontexte reflektieren. Dabei kommen die problematischen sowie die verheißungsvollen Dimensionen der Dichotomie von Gast- und Gastgebersein in den Blick, die der Fokus auf Gastfreundschaft insbesondere im Christentum impliziert. Die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Verletzbarkeit und Handlungsmacht von Migrantinnen und Migranten wird aus empirischer, theologischer, soziologischer sowie anthropologischer Perspektive beleuchtet.

Endnotes

Introduction

1 https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2018/6/5b222c494/forced-displacement-record685-million.html (accessed: 14 May 2019).

Transnational Migration and the Travelling of Religious Beliefs

1 STEPHEN CASTLES ET AL., The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World Hampshire; New York, NY ⁵2013. LUDGER PRIES, Refugees, Civil Society and the State. European Experiences and Global Challenges, Cheltenham 2018.

2 PEW (Pew Research Center), Faith on the Move. The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants, 2012, URL: http://www.pewforum.org/2012/03/08/religious-migration-exec (accessed: 13 May 2019).

3 HERBERT J. GANS, The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies 38 (2015) 3, 418–429; the last part of Gans’ statement has to be proven empirically.

4 See NICK PERRY, Travelling Theory/Nomadic Theorizing, in: Organization 2 (1995) 1, 35–54; see EDWARD SAID, The World, the Text, and the Critic (Chapter 10, pp. 226–247 on Traveling Theory), Cambridge, MA 1983. (originally published in Raritan: A Quarterly Review 1 [1982] 3, 41–67).
See EDWARD SAID, Traveling Theory Reconsidered. In Reflection on Exile and Other Essays, Cambridge, MA 2000.

5 See UN DESA https://migrationdataportal.org/ (accessed: 13 May 2019).

6 GANS, The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America, 425.

7 See PEW (Pew Research Center), U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Religious Beliefs and Practices: Diverse and Politically Relevant, Washington, DC 2008, URL: http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2008/06/report2-religious-landscape-study-full.pdf (accessed: 13 May 2019); see PRB (Population Reference Bureau): Immigration Gives Catholicism a Boost in the United States, Washington, DC 2008. URL: https://www.prb.org/uscatholicsandimmigration/ (accessed: 13 May 2019).

8 DOUGLAS S. MASSEY/MONICA ESPINOZA HIGGINS: The Effect of Immigration on Religious Belief and Practice: A Theologizing or Alienating Experience?, in: Soc Sci Res. 40 (2011) 5, 1371–1389; see PEW (Pew Research Center), The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States, Washington, DC 2014, URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/05/Latinos-Religion-07-22-full-report.pdf (accessed: 8 July 2019).

9 See CHRISTIAN GROS, Evangelical Protestantism and Indigenous Populations, in: Bulletin of Latin American Research, Special Issue: Social Movements and Religious Change 18 (1999) 2, 175–197; see JAMES DOW, The Expansion of Protestantism in Mexico: An Anthropological View, in: Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2005) 4, 827–851.

10 See https://transborder.bts.gov/programs/international/transborder/TBDR_BC/TBDR_­BC_QuickSearch.html; https://www.wola.org/2017/01/fact-sheet-u-s-mexico-border/ and https://www.wola.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/border.jpg (accessed: 13 May 2019). In 2016 alone, over 400,000 unregistered persons were arrested at the US-Mexico border, about half of each with Mexican and non-Mexican citizenship.

11 See GIORGULI-SAUCEDO ET AL. 2016, 17, in: The National Occupational and Employment Survey (ENOE) carried out by the Mexican Statistical Office, INEGI, the number of emigrants is estimated to be 3.6 per 1,000 residential population; see http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/­frequently-requested-­statistics-immigrants-and-­immigration-united-states­#Mexican (accessed: 13 M...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Religion and Migration: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability
• I. Migrants’ Agency and Changing Landscapes of Religion
• II. Rethinking Hospitality and Home
• III. Public Discourse and Religious Practice
• List of Contributors
• More Books
• Endnotes