Religious space, transnational space, humanitarian space: case study of a faith-based organisation on the African migration route

This research demonstrates how the role of 'religion' in humanitarianism, particularly in the field of migration, is a negotiation marked by contradictions, tension and ambiguity, reflecting the wider ambivalent role of religion and the secular in the public sphere. It puts into question the idea of distinct divisions between religion and the secular, and religion and politics and considers how such binaries can render invisible from the public sphere smaller faith-based actors from the global South. The research contributes to a greater understanding of organisations who engage in 'other' modes of humanitarian action that often go unrecognised in the literature, thereby enlarging the definition of humanitarianism.