Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration

by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio (Editor), Vivienne SM. Angeles (Editor), Vivienne S. M. Angeles (Contribution by), Michiel Baas (Contribution by), Synnøve Bendixsen (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739133132
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/03/2009
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is assistant professor of women's studies at University of Lethbridge.

Vivienne SM. Angeles is assistant professor of religion at La Salle University and co-editor of Identity in Crossroads Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

1 Introduction Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Vivienne SM. Angeles 1

Asia-Pacific

2 It Cuts Both Ways: Religion and Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Gemma Tulud Cruz 17

3 Faithing Japan: Japanese Brazilian Migrants and the Roman Catholic Church Hugo C?rdova Quero 55

4 On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Values of Muslim Men in Sydney Wafa Chafic 55

5 Praying for Food: Class and Indian Overseas Students in Australia Michiel Baas 71

Europe

6 Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in Berlin Synn?ve Bendixsen 95

7 Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in Germany Gertrud H?welmeier 115

8 Islam: A Dead End for Integration of Female Immigrants in Denmark? Helene Pristed Nielsen 133

9 Muslim Immigrants in France: Religious Markets and New Mechanisms of Integration Jamel Stambouli Sonia Ben Soltane 147

Latin America

10 Muslim Women in Brazil: Notes on Religion and Integration Cristina Maria de Castro 167

North America

11 Polish-Catholic Religiosity in California Krystyna B&lstroke;eszy?ska Marek Szopski 183

12 Acculturation of Kenyan Immigrants in the United States: Religious Service Attendance and Transnational Ties Lilian Odera 199

13 Ethno-Religious Power: Yoruba Immigrant Women in the United States Abolade Ezekiel Olagoke 217

14 New Guadalupanos: Mexican Immigrants, a Grassroots Organization and a Pilgrimage to New York Patricia Ruiz-Navarro 237

15 Building Communities through Faith: Filipino Catholics in Philadelphia and Alberta Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Vivienne SM. Angeles 257

16 No Greater Law: Illegal Immigration and Faith-based Activism Connie Oxford 275

Contributors 291

Index 297

What People are Saying About This

Zain Abdullah

This edited volume makes a major intervention into the field of migration studies by charting new ground through the vectors of gender and religion. The editors have skillfully managed to arrange provocative essays that cut across multiple disciplines, geographical sites, research methodologies, and religious orientations. A major facet of this critical work is the way it gives significant space to the gendered realities of both women and men. All together, it promises to alter forever the way we think about migratory processes and the religiously gendered lives of those who dare to move.

Sara R. Curran

An excellent collection of complex, nuanced, and deeply informative research on how religion intersects with gender and shapes migration. The editors and authors have successfully produced an extremely cohesive and consequently insightful body of work!

Editorial Reviews

For those who are looking for empirically grounded studies into the genderization of immigrant religiosity, this book is a true treasure trove.

Religion and Gender

An excellent collection of complex, nuanced, and deeply informative research on how religion intersects with gender and shapes migration. The editors and authors have successfully produced an extremely cohesive and consequently insightful body of work!

Sara R. Curran

This edited volume makes a major intervention into the field of migration studies by charting new ground through the vectors of gender and religion. The editors have skillfully managed to arrange provocative essays that cut across multiple disciplines, geographical sites, research methodologies, and religious orientations. A major facet of this critical work is the way it gives significant space to the gendered realities of both women and men. All together, it promises to alter forever the way we think about migratory processes and the religiously gendered lives of those who dare to move.

Zain Abdullah

An excellent collection of complex, nuanced, and deeply informative research on how religion intersects with gender and shapes migration. The editors and authors have successfully produced an extremely cohesive and consequently insightful body of work!--Sara R. Curran, University of Washington

This edited volume makes a major intervention into the field of migration studies by charting new ground through the vectors of gender and religion. The editors have skillfully managed to arrange provocative essays that cut across multiple disciplines, geographical sites, research methodologies, and religious orientations. A major facet of this critical work is the way it gives significant space to the gendered realities of both women and men. All together, it promises to alter forever the way we think about migratory processes and the religiously gendered lives of those who dare to move.--Zain Abdullah, Author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (Oxford University Press)

For those who are looking for empirically grounded studies into the genderization of immigrant religiosity, this book is a true treasure trove.--Religion and Gender

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