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- Title
GÖÇ SÜRECİNDE DİN.
- Authors
YILMAZ, Hasan Ali
- Abstract
This study examines the roles that religion plays in the migration process by reviewing existing literature on interaction between religion and migration. This paper discusses the migration process in three stages as departure, journey and settlement. The study employs functional and living religious approaches as theoretical frames. With functional approach, the roles of religion, religious institutions and faith-based organizations for immigrants will be investigated. With the lived religion approach, roles of religious resources for migrants, such as religious practices, rituals, information, activities and identities that are outside of official and prescribed religion will be investigated. Methodologically, the study presents and discusses on results ethnographic researches. This literature review highlights the following results. During the leaving phase, religous resources and institutions prepare immigrants for the journey by providing guidance along with spiritual and psychological support. During the journey, they enable migrants to cope with human and nature-based difficulties, dangers and risks. Also they accompany immigrants, advocate their rights, provide social networks and moral support. During the settlement phase, religious resources and religious institutions help migrants to cope with feelings of loneliness, uncertainty and strangeness, as well as economic, emotional and psychological anxiety, by providing moral and psychological support. In addition, religious resources and institutions help migrants to produce spaces of belonging, (re)construct identity and to interact with immigrant communities in places of settlement. However, religion does not always plays positive roles in migration process. Religious identities cause to construct boundaries between migrants and host communites. This review aims to gather discussions and findings from a limited studies on immigration and religion. In this way, it aims to help future researchers who study on interaction between migration and religion in Turkey, which has hosted millions of illegal immigrants/asylum seekers in recent years and has a high number of internal migration.
- Publication
Journal of International Social Research, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 75, p848
- ISSN
1307-9581
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17719/jisr.11201