| Description |
1 online resource (413 pages) |
| Contents |
Religion and forced displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia -- Humanitarian action, forced displacement and religion : contemporary research perspectives -- Section I. Eastern Europe. Religion and forced displacement in modern Bulgaria -- State, religion and refugees in Serbia : responses of faith-based organisations, 1991-1996 -- Asylum and migration system reform : a new role for the Orthodox Church of Greece? -- Responding to mass emigration amidst competing narratives of identity : the case of the Republic of Moldova -- The Roman Catholic Church and forced displacement in Poland -- Section II. Russia and Ukraine. 'My strength is made perfect in weakness' : Russian orthodoxy and forced displacement -- Forced displacement, religious freedom and the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- Section III. The Caucasus. 'Forgotten by many and remembered by few' : Religious responses to forced migration in Georgia -- Welcoming refugees? : The Armenian Apostolic Church and forced displacement -- Section IV. Central Asia. The response of the metropolitan district of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan to the emigration of ethnic Russians from independent Kazakhstan -- Community intolerance, state repression and forced displacement in the Kyrgyz Republic -- Migration within and from Uzbekistan : The role of religion |
| Summary |
This book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. It analyses religious strategies in relation to tolerance and transitory environments as a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the post-2011 Syrian crisis and the 2014 Russian takeover of Crimea. How do religious actors and state bodies engage with refugees and migrants? What are the mechanisms of religious support towards forcibly displaced communities? The book argues that when states do not act as providers of human security, religious communities, as representatives of civil society and often closer to the grass roots level, can be well placed to serve populations in need. The book brings together scholars from across the region and provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which religious communities tackle humanitarian crises in contemporary Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan |
| Analysis |
Religion, forced displacement, humanitarian action, Christianity, Islam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2022) |
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Refugees.
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Church work with refugees.
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Forced migration -- Europe, Eastern
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Forced migration -- Caucasus
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Forced migration -- Asia, Central
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refugees.
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Religious issues and debates.
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Migration, immigration and emigration.
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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Church work with refugees
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Forced migration
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Refugees
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Religion and politics.
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Population and migration geography.
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Caucasus
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Central Asia
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Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hudson, Victoria, editor
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Leuștean, Lucian, editor
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| ISBN |
9789048553938 |
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9048553938 |
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