Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739133144 ISBN 13: 9780739133149

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

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))

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)

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0739133144
• ISBN 13: 9780739133149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Bonifacio Glenda Tibe, Angeles Vivienne SM.