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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
28-45
عنوان
African Diaspora
شماره جلد
10/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1872-5465
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
activisme politique
اصطلاح موضوعی
dispositifs administratifs
اصطلاح موضوعی
exclusion
اصطلاح موضوعی
migration policies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Pentecostalism
اصطلاح موضوعی
pentecôtisme
اصطلاح موضوعی
political activism
اصطلاح موضوعی
politiques migratoires
اصطلاح موضوعی
prayer
اصطلاح موضوعی
prière
اصطلاح موضوعی
subjectivité
اصطلاح موضوعی
subjectivity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Suisse
اصطلاح موضوعی
Switzerland
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