Abstract
The "Pasifika-tion" of migration and the Hebrew Bible uses the Sorong-Samarai movement to analyze issues (home, hospitality, disruption, invasion) and narratives (Ruth, Jonah) in the Hebrew Bible that involves migration. The Sorong-Samarai movement is currently underway (though mostly underground) in Papua, aimed to revive the connections between indigenous West Papua (under occupation by Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea. The movement will host a migration (using the Wairon from Nusi, Biak) from Sorong (western tip of West Papua) to Samarai (eastern tip of PNG) later in 2018, giving interested features to the "stuff of migration": that migration is for the purpose of re-connecting (people and cultures), opposing (empires and colonialism) and establishing solidarity (with other Pasifika lands under occupation). Attention will also be given to other realities in Pasifika (esp. climate [in]justice, development, militarization) and their place in the crossing of migration and the Hebrew Bible.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Religion and migration |
| Subtitle of host publication | Negotiating hospitality, agency and vulnerability |
| Editors | Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Ilona Nord |
| Place of Publication | Leipzig |
| Publisher | Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH |
| Pages | 217-229 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783374061327 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783374061310 |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2019 |