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September 10, 2025Migration Studies

Getting saved from illegality and unbelief? Religious asylum, migration dreams, and Christian conversion

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JKJaeeun KimUniversity of Michigan

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Ethnographic research examines religious asylum's influence on Korean Chinese migrants' identities and futures, suggesting shifts in self-understanding and belief.

Key Points

  • Religious asylum significantly alters Korean Chinese migrants' self-understandings of their identities while navigating immigration law.
  • Ethnographic research reveals how three temporalities—post-Cold War, migration boom, and Korean evangelicalism—shape asylum experiences.
  • The intersection of these temporalities influences whether migrants pursue asylum as Christians, impacting their experiences and future aspirations.
  • The findings highlight the article's contribution to migration scholarship and the understanding of identity formation in complex legal contexts.

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Jaeeun Kim (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c188499b7b07f3a0611eb3https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf041
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