Description

Gender, Religion and Migration is the first multidisciplinary collection on the intersection of gender and religion in the integration of different groups of immigrants, migrant workers, youths, and students in host societies in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. It investigates the linkages and tensions between religion and integration from a gendered perspective. By examining the contemporary significance of religion in the context of global migrations, the fifteen research-based essays provide new insights and perspectives on the often missed link between the differing ways in which male and female immigrants find meanings of faith-beliefs and religious traditions to belong in foreign lands, even residents' faith-based activism involving illegal migrants. While religion provides mechanisms for negotiating immigrant life in the host countries, it also inhibits integration of immigrants especially in countries where the majority religion is different. This dual phenomenon of religion promoting and inhibiting integration is critically examined in the lives of Filipinos, Brazilians, Indians, Polish, Mexicans, Vietnamese, Kenyans, Nigerians, and Middle Eastern peoples. The book also engages various theories on gender, religion and migration and demonstrates the fluidity of gender construction as people cross borders.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part 2 Asia-Pacific
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. It Cuts Both Ways: Religion and Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Faith(ing) Japan: Japanese Brazilian Migrants and the Roman Catholic Church
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Value of Muslim Men in Sydney
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Praying for Food: Class and Indian Overseas Students in Australia
Part 7 Europe
Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in Berlin
Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in Germany
Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Islam: A Dead End for Integration of Female Immigrants in Denmark?
Chapter 11 Chapter 9. Muslim Immigrants in France: Religious Markets and New Mechanisms of Integration
Part 12 Latin America
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Muslim Women in Brazil: Notes on Religion and Integration
Part 14 North America
Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Polish-Catholic Religiosity in California
Chapter 16 Chapter 12. Acculturation of Kenyan Immigrants in the United States: Religious Service Attendance and Transnational Ties
Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Ethno-Religious Power: Yoruba Immigrant Women in the United States
Chapter 18 Chapter 14. New Guadalupanos: Mexican Immigrants, a Grassroots Organization, and a Pilgrimage to New York
Chapter 19 Chapter 15. Building Communities through Faith: Filipino Catholics in Philidelphia and Alberta
Chapter 20 Chapter 16. No Greater Law: Illegal Immigration and Faith-based Activism

Product details

Published 19 Aug 2011
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 314
ISBN 9780739133149
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 230 x 155 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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