Migration, religion and work in comparative perspective. Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe

Projektinformationen

MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 652925

DOI 10.3030/652925

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 17 April 2015

Startdatum 1 September 2015

Enddatum 11 Juni 2018

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten € 160 477,20

EU-Beitrag € 160 477,20

Koordiniert durch

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Italy

Ziel

How do Evangelical migrants use religion and church-related networks to seek employment, pursue social mobility, construct respectability and resist racism? How do Evangelical churches become ‘brokers’ of socio-economic integration of their members thus stakeholders in immigration countries? These are the main questions that this project seeks to answer. MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY investigates how migrant men and women from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America make use of a minority religion in negotiating their social and economic integration in Europe. The project focuses on Ghanaian and Ecuadorian migrants in Italy and Spain. I investigate how migrants develop strategies of integration through the Evangelical churches and how such strategies are shaped by ethnicity, class, gender and age. I also look at how Evangelical churches act as ‘brokers’ of integration, in relation to employment but also with reference to a wider social positioning of the migrant as a ‘minority Christian’. In doing so, the research contributes to our understanding of the role of religion in migrants’ integration or marginalisation and of how migration is reconfiguring the Italian and Spanish societies through the production of new understandings of Christianity: these churches challenge the Catholic majority religion as well as dominant views of migrant religion as Islam only. The MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY project brings together two hitherto separate strands of research: that on migrant labour and ethnicity on the one hand, and that on migration and religion, more specifically on migration-driven Evangelical churches, on the other.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › religions › islam
• humanities › arts › modern and contemporary art › cinematography
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › religions › christianity
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migrations

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Thema/Themen

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Finanzierungsplan

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Koordinator

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 160 477,20
• Adresse: VIA DEI ROCCETTINI 9 ; 50014 Fiesole ; Italien
• Region: Centro (IT) › Toscana › Firenze
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 160 477,20