Gender, Religion, and Migration

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.

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.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionPart 2 Asia-PacificChapter 3 Chapter 2. It Cuts Both Ways: Religion and Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong KongChapter 4 Chapter 3. Faith(ing) Japan: Japanese Brazilian Migrants and the Roman Catholic ChurchChapter 5 Chapter 4. On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Value of Muslim Men in SydneyChapter 6 Chapter 5. Praying for Food: Class and Indian Overseas Students in AustraliaPart 7 EuropeChapter 8 Chapter 6. Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in BerlinChapter 9 Chapter 7. Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in GermanyChapter 10 Chapter 8. Islam: A Dead End for Integration of Female Immigrants in Denmark?Chapter 11 Chapter 9. Muslim Immigrants in France: Religious Markets and New Mechanisms of IntegrationPart 12 Latin AmericaChapter 13 Chapter 10. Muslim Women in Brazil: Notes on Religion and IntegrationPart 14 North AmericaChapter 15 Chapter 11. Polish-Catholic Religiosity in CaliforniaChapter 16 Chapter 12. Acculturation of Kenyan Immigrants in the United States: Religious Service Attendance and Transnational TiesChapter 17 Chapter 13. Ethno-Religious Power: Yoruba Immigrant Women in the United StatesChapter 18 Chapter 14. New Guadalupanos: Mexican Immigrants, a Grassroots Organization, and a Pilgrimage to New YorkChapter 19 Chapter 15. Building Communities through Faith: Filipino Catholics in Philidelphia and AlbertaChapter 20 Chapter 16. No Greater Law: Illegal Immigration and Faith-based Activism