The paper considers colonized bodies on the move from the Global South as it explores how religion mediates mobility and structural immigration policies and processes. I argue that imperial processes for colonized bodies on the move engender what I call rites of mobility—a performance of contestation of dominant structures, negotiation of imposed dominant labels, and re-construction of placemaking and belonging.
Based on fieldwork research in a Ghanaian neo-Pentecostal church known as the Power Chapel Worldwide in Kumasi, popular for its innovative travel ritual praxis, I explore the phenomenon and suggest that imperial constructs of migration processes, especially for marginalized groups are contested and (re)negotiated in local religious spaces. The questions the paper seeks to answer are how do Ghanaian Pentecostal ritual agents negotiate, contest, and redefine impeding structures of migration, and when are the practices performed?