Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration

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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 Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction • Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne SM. Angeles 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 Cordova Quero 4 On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Values of Muslim Men in Sydney • Wafa Chaflc 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 • Synnove Bendixsen 1 Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in Germany • Gertrud Hiiwelmeier 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 Błeszyńska 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 Contributors Index