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- Title
'Because I know God answers prayers': The Role of Religion in African - Scandinavian Labour Migration.
- Authors
Engh, Mari Haugaa
- Abstract
Drawing on interviews conducted with highly skilled Nigerian women footballers that have migrated to work in Scandinavian clubs, this article provides an analysis of how religious beliefs and practices function as resources for articulating, producing, and maintaining transnational mobility. Through taking part in transnational Pentecostal communities, Nigerian women migrants access networks and forms of knowledge that supports their status and mobility as labour migrants. Moreover, these women believe that their transnational and daily religious practices, such as prayer, are ways through which a transnationally mobile career can be achieved and sustained. Drawing on material from ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with migrant Nigerian women football players, I argue that religion provides these labour migrants with access to material, inter-personal and transcendental resources for achieving their career and migratory aspirations.
- Subjects
LABOR mobility; BELIEF &; doubt; PENTECOSTAL doctrines; ETHNOLOGY; WOMEN football players
- Publication
Alternation, 2018, Issue 22, p57
- ISSN
1023-1757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29086/2519-5476/2018/sp22a4