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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739133144
• ISBN 13: 9780739133149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Angeles Vivienne