Contested Home - Asylum-seeking in Switzerland and the Politics of Belonging, Place, and Religion

»Home« is both personal and political, static and dynamic, familiar and unfamiliar. Through ethnographic research with asylum-seekers at a church-based refugee program in Basel, Switzerland, Katherine Kunz explores the role of government, church, volunteers, and refugees in defining belonging. By examining asylum systems, the role of place and agency, and religious motivations, she reveals home as shaped by systems that often obscure its essential vulnerability and multiplicity. This study is of interest to anyone who has considered belonging through the lenses of migration, borders, or religion and to those who have questioned their own relationship to home.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katherine Kunz
• Editore: Transcript
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9783837669237
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6923-7
• Pagine: 294
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 20 mm x 225 mm
• Peso: 468 g
• Serie: Religion in Bewegung | Religion in Motion; Religion in Bewegung - Religion in Motion 5
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Globalization, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Human Geography, EU & European institutions, Central government policies, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, International migration and colonization, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), Philosophy and theory of religion