The primordial refugees
Religious traditions, global forced migration, and state-society relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2355656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Hein (0000-0002-2170-8775, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, corresponding author), Tarique Niazi (0000-0002-7263-5617, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 726-741 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0268580916662388 |
| OpenAlex | W2515818581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
Global responses to Syrian refugees reveal a contradiction in state-society relations. Many groups in civil society want to assist the refugees, while many state officials want to limit or entirely prevent refugee admissions. To explain the anomaly of civil society pressuring a reluctant state to open its borders to refugees, this essay reviews forced migration traditions in five world religions, three of them monotheistic and one each pantheistic and nontheistic: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The essay documents that each religion has a flight narrative about a divine escape. Moses, the infant Christ, Mohammed, the infant Krishna, and the future Buddha all fled from imprisonment or death threats. These faith-based flight narratives are thousands of years older than the state's political asylum policy and they continue to be commemorated in ritual and practiced through actual assistance to refugees. The primordial refugees in world religions partly explain why civil society can be more responsive to forced migration than the state
Buddhism · Civil society · Faith · Islam · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Theology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |