Across the world both in the developed and developing worlds, migrant-refugee dynamic is one of the most hotly debated topics in the academia, media, polity, and in other fora. Those from the two-third world wants to migrate to the developed world for quality of life-simply means to be like 'them' or 'like others' who live in the one-third world. Alongside, there is also a large section of people in millions within and outside their countries in the two-third world living like refugees.
As against the backdrop, this volume addresses their problems-refugees and migrants who face horrendous difficulties in Asia and Africa. A number of factors push them from their locales to leave their countries for survival-who have eventually been branded as migrants and as refugees. This volume is thus to bring to the fore the plight of the refugees and migrants from diverse approaches and perspectives. On these lines, the book covers a range of theological disciplines-encouraging multi-disciplinary methods.
The book is primarily revolving around academic and pragmatic dimensions. It will also at time necessarily draws references and inferences from theoretical frames and practical initiatives. It is to be noted that the facts and figures available in the field of study and the domain of literature on this topic along with personal involvement of some scholars collecting the data and case studies spills outside the sphere of the academic arena adds a good mix of both. Hence, it is a mix of diverse views, standpoints, and perspectives that emanates from the locales that the refugees and migrants live and hail from. So, the problems faced and encountered by migrants and refugees are viewed from the Global South or the Two-third world prisms.
Dr. Indukuri John Mohan Razu, a writer, educator, and "theological animator", is the author of several books that covers polity, economy, theology and philosophy. He has taught at many theological colleges in India. Known for his social and political stance and is a journalist.
Nowadays any discussion be it politics, economics, religion, culture, or society the domain of migrants and refugees occupy the center-stage. The problems viewed by host countries and those dislike the influx of migrants and refugees and the miseries faced by the migrants and refugees have assumed global proportion and thus become a phenomenon. In addition, the ruling class and those who live and lead a comfortable life tends to take the lives of migrants and refugees for granted. Further, a tiny section of people involved in policy-evolving processes bureaucrats, and others such as legislators, politicians, and the aspirational middle-class view the refugees and migrants as nuisance as parasites who suck the economy and occupy the land that belongs to them. And so, any discussion or debate when it comes to refugees and migrants, I see a number of twists and turns, vibes and vicissitudes, and nuanced interpretations.
Migrant-refugee dynamic is one of the most pervasive and taken-for-grant features in our lives. It figures in the make-up of all society more particularly in the global South. And yet refugee-migrant dynamic is conspicuous and blatant in to-day's world in terms of power, wealth, oppression, identity, inequality, domination, recast and xenophobic tendencies, power dynamics between global North and global South, inequity, right-wing conservatism, self-doubt, and growing intolerance. The inward and regressive movement of the nation-states in terms of religio-cultural, politico-economic, and ideological-identify has deepened and further escalated the migration-refugee dynamic into currently the major crisis across the world.
The growing magnitude of refugee-migrant dynamic in the global South especially in Asia and Africa accommodates almost two-third of world's population. I'm not ignoring or setting aside South America as it is also falling under the two-third world. It is also facing severe refugee-migration crisis across-within and between countries. Nevertheless, due to manageability and the scope within which this series is focused or even I can say located, it is with profound regret South America as a continent has not been taken into account, though the continent falls within the bracket of the so-called two-third world or global-South.
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