From neoliberalism to neoexclusionism: how grassroots faith communities are resisting division and crossing borders

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Thompson, Naomi; Bright, Graham and Hart, Peter. 2025. From neoliberalism to neoexclusionism: how grassroots faith communities are resisting division and crossing borders. In: Brian Callan; Pearson Nkhoma and Naomi Thompson, eds. Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447372790 [Book Section] (In Press)

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This chapter draws on empirical research with a range of faith-based youth and community workers in England and Scotland. Emerging themes include promoting inclusion and striving for justice in faith-based work; asset-based approaches to youth and community practice that reclaim grass-roots co-production; challenging neoliberal discourses of ‘deficit’ and ‘risk’; and recreating civil-democratic and dialogical spaces. We argue that in recent years, neoliberalism has morphed into something more sinister that we term neoexclusionism, where discourses of division and fear have been politicised with marginalised groups further stigmatised. Our research demonstrates how faith-based youth and community workers seek to resist this oppressive culture, which echoes dark facets of human history, by bringing people together to resist division and fear.

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