Neither Nationalism Nor Statism: Explaining Orthodox Churches’ Responses To Migration In Southeastern Europe
Neither Nationalism Nor Statism: Explaining Orthodox Churches’ Responses To Migration In Southeastern Europe

Author(s): Patrick R. Ireland
Subject(s): Nationalism Studies, Eastern Orthodoxy, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Nationalism; statism; Orthodox Churches; responses migration; Southeastern Europe;
Summary/Abstract: The responses of churches to Europe’s most recent migration crisis (2015–19) have gone understudied. Relying on the academic and grey literatures, existing statistics, and data gathered from site visits, a comparison of the positions taken by Orthodox churches in the most directly affected Southeastern European countries belies received wisdom: they have not acted primarily out of nationalist sentiment or in accordance with statist imperatives. Driving them has been the legacy of their individual histories and national experiences with ecumenism and migration before and since the Cold War, in the context of a general reaction against globalization and postmodernism.

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