Gender, Religion and Migration

"Gender, Religion and Migration: Pathways of Integration"
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne SM. Angeles, (Lexington Books, 2009), 318 pp, Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0739133136
ISBN-13: 978-0739133132

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 in faith-beliefs and religious traditions to belong in foreign lands, even resident´s faith-based activism involving illegal migrants. While religion provides mechanisms for negotiating immigrant life in the host societies, it also inhibits the integration of immigrants especially in countries where the majority religion is
different. This dual phenomenon of religion promotion 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.

Contents:
Asia-Pacific
2 It Cuts Both Ways: Religion and Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Gemma Tulud Cruz
3 Faithing Japan: Japanese Brazilian Migrants and the Roman Catholic Church
Hugo Córdova Quero
4 On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Values of Muslim Men in Sydney
Wafa Chafic
5 Praying for Food: Class and Indian Overseas Students in Australia
Michiel Baas

Europe
6 Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in Berlin
Synnøve Bendixsen
7 Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in Germany
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
8 Islam: A Dead End for Integration of Female Immigrants in Denmark?
Helene Pristed Nielsen
9 Muslim Immigrants in France: Religious Markets and New Mechanisms of Integration
Jamel Stambouli and Sonia Ben Soltane

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

North America
11 Polish-Catholic Religiosity in California
Krystyna Bleszyka and Marek Szopski
12 Acculturation of Kenyan Immigrants in the United States: Religious
Service Attendance and Transnational Ties
Lilian Odera
13 Ethno-Religious Power: Yoruba Immigrant Women in the United States
Abolade Ezekiel Olagoke
14 New Guadalupanos: Mexican Immigrants, a Grassroots Organization and a
Pilgrimage to New York
Patricia Ruiz-Navarro
15 Building Communities through Faith: Filipino Catholics in Philadelphia
and Alberta
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne SM. Angeles
16 No Greater Law: Illegal Immigration and Faith-based Activism
Connie Oxford