ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the idea that for many migrants their movement from one country to another often involves more than the simple crossing of borders, it involves lengthy bureaucratic entanglement with agencies, laws and institutions. It is concerned with both how religion is invoked in borderland processes, sites and institutions but also, and quite significantly, how religion is refigured and produced as a consequence of migration. The chapter argues that migrants re-imagine religion, erect and produce religious sites that potentially disrupt religious discourses about knowing and being – consistent with postcolonialism's orientation towards disrupting knowledge archives, dogmas, and practices. Postcolonialism is concerned with unmasking the guises of colonialism, and in particular, the ways in which colonialism institutionalised differentiation between native and settler, that continue to be replicated well after the formal demise of colonialism. It takes as its premise the idea of mutual imbrications – that both the identity of the colonised and the coloniser are reshaped by the encounter.
