ABSTRACT
The strong push and pull factors for people from the Global South to move for economic and security reasons means that they dominate migration flows to the Global North. As a result, Christianity as a world religion, in general, and in countries in the Global North, in particular, is being transformed. The chapter navigates the (im)possibilities of keeping and practicing the Christian faith among marginalized African and Asian migrants and their communities in the increasingly diverse and alienating societies of developed countries, especially Western countries. It considers the ethnic and multicultural, folk and Pentecostal, missionary and transnational, as well as marginal and inclusive character of Christian faith and practice within and among African and Asian migrant communities as ways of dealing with the difficulties and complexities of their experience as migrants from the Global South in countries in the Global North. The chapter illumines Christianity as a lived religion in the context of global migration and submits that bonding and bridging are hallmarks of Christianity among marginalized migrant communities and that these hallmarks are, in turn, reshaping Christianity in its universal (e.g., missionary) and particular (e.g., ethnic) dimensions.
