TY - JOUR
TI - Assyrians Without Borders: Middle Eastern Christians Towards a New Form of Citizenship in Sweden
AU - Woźniak-Bobińska, Marta
TI - Assyrians Without Borders: Middle Eastern Christians Towards a New Form of Citizenship in Sweden
AB - 
	This article presents a case study of a Swedish-based NGO, Assyrians Without Borders (AWB), whose priority objective is to help Middle Eastern Christians, mainly Assyrians/Syriacs, in need in their homeland. The paper argues that Assyrians/Syriacs in Sweden have developed three forms of citizenship – religious, political and democratic. All three forms are transnational and have the potential to challenge the idea of national citizenship as being the dominant model of citizenship. Participating in AWB is understood as practising democratic citizenship, a concept seen as the Swedish ideal of model citizenship. The paper claims that AWB empowers its members and helps them to construct a mutually reinforcing dual Assyrian-Swedish identity.
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 54 Issue 1
PY - 2021
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 63
EP - 80
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.21.005.13929
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/assyrians-without-borders-middle-eastern-christians-towards-a-new-form-of-citizenship-in-sweden
KW - Assyrians Without Borders
KW - Middle Eastern Christians
KW - Assyrians
KW - Syriacs
KW - Syriac Orthodox Church
KW - Sweden
KW - citizenship
KW - NGO