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

• Main Author: Kunz, Katherine
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: transcript Verlag 2025; transcript
• Series: Religion in Bewegung | Religion in Motion
• Subjects: Globalization; Interdisciplinary studies; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
• ISBN: 3839400724; 3837669238; 9783837669237; 9783839400722
• DOI: 10.14361/9783839400722

»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 ex...