Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches' Responses in Europe: Belonging, Community and Integration: the Witness and Service of Churches in Europe

Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches' Responses in Europe

The 2008 edition of the Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches’ Responses – Europe Study was a ground-breaking study of the phenomenon of migration and engagement with migrants by churches in Europe.

This revised and updated second edition provides a more coherent discussion of the patterns of churches’ engagement with migrants and refugees in Europe, focused around the three themes of belonging, community, and integration. This shapes our discussion of migration as a phenomenon, of migration in sociological perspective, and of migration in theological perspective. Continuing with these themes, we allow them to shape our presentation of demographic and infographic data and responses received from churches in Europe to a research questionnaire commissioned especially for this edition.

A final Appendix concludes with the more recent and significant joint statements in which the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe has been a partner or initiator.

With newly updated bibliographical resources, this volume is still the only work that provides a comprehensive account of churches' responses to migration in Europe.

Rev Dr Darrell Jackson holds a ThD in missiology from the University of Birmingham. He has served as National Mission Advisor to the Baptist Union of Great Britain (1996-2003), Mission Researcher for the Conference of Europe Churches (2004-2007), and founded the Nova Research Centre, Redcliffe College, Gloucester (2007-2011). In 2012 he became the Senior Lecturer in Missiology at Morling College, Sydney, a College of the University of Divinity, Melbourne. He began researching migration, ethnic diversity, and intercultural Christianity in 2004, areas in which he currently writes, teaches, and supervises PhD students from Chinese, Sri Lankan, Australian, and Nigerian backgrounds. He is a contributing editor to Vista and on the Editorial Advisory Council of Lausanne Global Analysis. He is Vice-President of the Australian Association of Mission Studies, Chair of the Lausanne International Researchers' Network, on the National Leadership Team of Missions Interlink (Australia), and a Board member of European Christian Mission International.

Dr Alessia Passarelli (b. 1979) holds a PhD in sociology from Trinity College Dublin where she investigated the integration policies and practices of Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy. She graduated in cultural anthropology at University 'La Sapienza' in Rome with a thesis on Romanian Roma people in Rome. She has been working on migration, religion, ethnic minorities and integration issues since 2005: previously by implementing and coordinating projects at the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and later by being part of the research team of the Trinity Immigration Initiative Project at Trinity College. Currently she collaborates with the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) researching the integration of first and second generation Protestant migrants in religious communities and in the wider society. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on migration, religion and integration.