Migration: Challenge to Religious Identity II

Migration is part of the face of today’s world. Often neither the migrants nor the cultures where they settle are prepared for this mutual encounter. Religions, customs and traditions, language and legal thinking often clash. Whether the foreign country can become a home or remains a foreign country depends on the behaviour of both sides. Openness, sociability, willingness to learn and tolerance are required. A series of short testimonials from Swiss emigrants to other continents and immigrants from other continents to Switzerland show a wide range of such experiences. Large-scale migratory movements in different cultural and historical epochs provide a complex view of this phenomenon, which is more consciously perceived today and which nobody can avoid in a globalised world.