Evaluating faith after conversion: Arguments in religious media on the place of religious expertise in asylum appeals in Finland

In 2017, the Finnish Immigration Service received approximately 1,000 asylum applications and appeals based on conversion from Islam to Christianity. The applications claimed that converted asylum seekers would face mortal danger if returned to their countries of origin. The applications posed an un...

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Main Author: Hartikainen, Elina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2019]
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 41-56
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Finland / Secularism (Motif) / Islam / Conversion (Religion) / Christianity / Asylum / Evaluation
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B Asylum Seekers
B Media
B Conversion
B right of asylum
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