Forced Migration: Problems, Challenges and Theological Responses

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Part - I: Conceptual and Theoretical Domain. 1. Not to Conflate: Migrants and Refugees/John Mohan Razu 2. Shrinking Globalization and Rising Nationalism: Human Migration a Global Challenge/John Mohan Razu 3. Urbanization, Pandemic, Intermittent Lockdown: It’s Impacts on Migrants in India/Shujayathulla E. 4. ‘Integration’: Migrants and Refugees Approached from an ‘Ethic of Hospitality’/John Mohan Razu 5. Beyond Skewed Notions of Nationalism: Towards a Compassionate Ethical Comity of Nations/Sigamoney Shakespeare 6. Distress Migration in Bihar: Factors, Causes and Responses/Prakash Louis 7. Covid–19 Lockdown and the Plight of Migrants: Challenges and Responses/Shujayathulla E. and Harshita 8. Changing Contour of Agriculture and Shifting Nature of Labour in the Context of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (Lpg)/John Mohan Razu 9. Dying to Live: Theology and Migration-Identity Crisis/Graceson Pavei Ngade Part-II: Issual and Perspectival Domain. 10. An Appraisal on Migrants at the Roadside: Through a Feminist Lens/Moasenla 11. Forced by Circumstances to Migrate to the Gulf: A Religio-Cultural Perspective (Case of Kenyan Women Working in Gulf)/Wanjiku M. Kihuha. 12. A Case Study: Migrant Workers Suffer Humiliation in Kerala/Martin Puthussery 13. Re-Imagining Nisungsangla from Ao Naga Perspective: A Theological Response on Forced Migration/Imsentiba Jamir 14. In Flight: Towards a Pastoral Care to Migrant Workers/Carmel Burila Villar 15. A Theology of Migration: Migrants as Prophetic Agents of Transformation/Sigamoney Shakespeare 16. De-Coding Human Trafficking in a Post-De-Globalizing World: Through the Prism of Christian Social Ethics/John Mohan Razu. People trying to migrate to other countries drown in sewage canals; freeze to death in remote forests; die of dehydration and starvation after their vehicles break down in the middle of the desert or their boat capsizes. When people in hundreds and thousands are forced to flee due to conflict or war or other circumstances leaving everything behind them. This volume precisely addresses the problems of forced migration and the challenges they face and thus offers theological responses. …