Migration Policies and Uncertainty

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Migration Policies and Uncertainty "
Jeanne Rey

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063806
Doc. No	:	LA107435
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01001006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jeanne Rey
Title & Author	:	Migration Policies and Uncertainty [Article]\ Jeanne Rey
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African Diaspora
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/1-2
Page No	:	28–45
Abstract	:	This article addresses the role of migrant congregations as civil society players through the practice of prayer. By combining the notion of political activism and the theory of subjectivation, it offers a new perspective on Pentecostal practice and migrant congregations in Europe as a way of addressing uncertainty linked to migration policies and mobility regimes. In Switzerland, where conditions for migrants have become increasingly restrictive, political and social forms of exclusion are challenged by African Pentecostal migrants who engage in prayer that contests restrictions on mobility, assignation to subaltern positions, as well as other forms of discrimination. Yet, this ritual resistance rarely takes the form of a political action; neither does it formulate concrete claims towards immigration procedures and policies. Rather, it is expressed through prayer in the protective space of a religious community, allowing the migrants to reassess subjectivations and to imagine new subjectivities.
Descriptor	:	activisme politique
Descriptor	:	dispositifs administratifs
Descriptor	:	exclusion
Descriptor	:	migration policies
Descriptor	:	Pentecostalism
Descriptor	:	pentecôtisme
Descriptor	:	political activism
Descriptor	:	politiques migratoires
Descriptor	:	prayer
Descriptor	:	prière
Descriptor	:	subjectivité
Descriptor	:	subjectivity
Descriptor	:	Suisse
Descriptor	:	Switzerland
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01001006‬