Includes bibliographical references and index.

Edinburgh 2010 common call -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Chandler H. Im and Tereso C. Casi�no -- PART ONE. HISTORICAL AND BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Mission and migration: the diaspora factor in Christian history / Andrew F. Walls -- Global Christianity and global diasporas / Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo -- My father was a migrant Aramean: Old Testament motifs for a theology of migration / Knut Holter -- Migrants as instruments of Evangelization: in early Christianity and in contemporary Christianity / Werner Kahl -- PART TWO. ETHNIC AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS -- The Chinese diaspora / Allen Yeh -- Understanding Filipino international migration / Andrew G. Recepcion -- The Japanese diaspora in Brazil / Key Yuasa -- South Asian diaspora Christianity in the Persian Gulf / T.V. Thomas -- The Korean diaspora churches in the USA: their concerns and strengths / Chandler H. Im -- Immigrants in the USA: a missional opportunity / Jenny Hwang Yang -- A new paradigm of the parish as a result of the pastoral openness of the missionary oblates of Mary Immaculate to the phenomenon of Polish immigrants in Canada / Wojciech Kluj -- Identity and ecumenical partnership of churches of African origin in Germany / Benjamin Simon -- The experience of migrants in the native British church: towards mission together / Emma Wild-Wood -- PART THREE. MISSIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- New opportunities and strategic practices of diaspora missions in South Korea / Enoch Wan and Chandler H. Im -- Diaspora missiology and the Lausanne Movement at the dawn of the twenty-first century -- Diaspora mission and Bible translation / S. Hun Kim -- Diaspora missions on campuses: John R. Mott and a centennial overview of the International Student Ministry Movement in North America / Leiton Edward Chinn -- The forsaken one: the trafficked woman as a template for the church's identity and mission / Myrto Theocharous -- From every tribe, language, people, and nation: diaspora, hybridity, and the coming reign of God / Amos Yong -- Epilogue / Chandler H. Im.