J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, [available Redcliffe site]
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"In the same way Europe has become the testing ground for a number of new missiological issues such as monoethnic churches in a multiethnic society and witness to the gospel in a post Christian society (often by Christians who have no experience of a post Christian society!)."1 (15)
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"Immigrants today, however, encounter centuries’ old civilisations and even more importantly, they remain the minority. On the whole, too, they form a diaspora, that is to say that retain strong links with their place of origin." 2(15)
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"The global culture demands and then favours those who are prepared to be mobile or at least to plug into the communications revolution at some level." 3(15)
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"The name ‘diaspora’ ...has now become something of a technical term... First of all, it involves a dispersion from one place or ‘centre’ from which all the dispersed take their identity, though there can be a variety of foreign destinations. All share in a common memory or myth of this ‘homeland’ (even if they are born somewhere else!), something which is so important that there is no likelihood that it will be forgotten. The fact that they remain ‘strangers’, a perpetual minority in their host nation, keeps the myth alive... the ongoing connections with their homeland are an important aspect of their self-identity."4 (16)
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"Typically, diaspora communities are both needy and open."5 (16)
1J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, 15 [available Redcliffe site]
2J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, 15 [available Redcliffe site]
3J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, 15 [available Redcliffe site]
4J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, 16 [available Redcliffe site]
5J Ingleby, 'Postcolonialism, globalisation, migration and diaspora: some implications for mission', Encounters 20 (October 2007), 15–17, 16 [available Redcliffe site]
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