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Religious practices and their transformation are crucial elements
of migrants' identities and are increasingly politicized by
national governments in the light of perceived threats to national
identity. As new immigrant flows shape religious pluralism in
Europe, longstanding relations between the State and Church are
challenged, together with majority-faith traditions and societies'
ways of representing and perceiving themselves. With attention to
variations according to national setting, this volume explores the
process of reformulating religious identities and practices amongst
South Asian 'communities' in European contexts, Presenting a wide
range of ethnographies, including studies of Hinduism, Sikhism,
Jainism and Islam amongst migrant communities in contexts as
diverse as Norway, Italy, the UK, France and Portugal, Migration
and Religion in Europe sheds light on the meaning of religious
practices to diasporic communities. It examines the manner in which
such practices can be used by migrants and local societies to
produce distance or proximity, as well as their political
significance in various 'host' nations. Offering insights into the
affirmation of national identities and cultures and the
implications of this for governance and political discourse within
Europe, this book will appeal to scholars with interests in
anthropology, religion and society, migration, transnationalism and
gender.
Religious practices and their transformation are crucial elements
of migrants' identities and are increasingly politicized by
national governments in the light of perceived threats to national
identity. As new immigrant flows shape religious pluralism in
Europe, longstanding relations between the State and Church are
challenged, together with majority-faith traditions and societies'
ways of representing and perceiving themselves. With attention to
variations according to national setting, this volume explores the
process of reformulating religious identities and practices amongst
South Asian 'communities' in European contexts, Presenting a wide
range of ethnographies, including studies of Hinduism, Sikhism,
Jainism and Islam amongst migrant communities in contexts as
diverse as Norway, Italy, the UK, France and Portugal, Migration
and Religion in Europe sheds light on the meaning of religious
practices to diasporic communities. It examines the manner in which
such practices can be used by migrants and local societies to
produce distance or proximity, as well as their political
significance in various 'host' nations. Offering insights into the
affirmation of national identities and cultures and the
implications of this for governance and political discourse within
Europe, this book will appeal to scholars with interests in
anthropology, religion and society, migration, transnationalism and
gender.
This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the
relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive
labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the
social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of
the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it
examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid
domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial,
ethnic, gender and class lines. Based on an ethnographic analysis
of the working and family lives of migrant men within the IDRL, it
focuses on the practices and strategies of migrant men employed as
domestic/care workers in Italy. The authors highlight how migrant
men's experiences of reproductive labour and family are shaped by
global forces and national public policies, and how they negotiate
the changes and potential conflicts that their 'feminised' jobs
entail. They draw on the voices of men and women of different
nationalities to show how masculinities are constructed within the
home through migrant men's interactions with male and female
employers, women relations and their wider ethnic network. Bridging
the divide between scholarship on international migration, care
work and masculinity studies, this book will interest sociologists,
anthropologists, economists, political scientists and social policy
experts.
Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of
cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their
communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that
position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a
transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of
displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary
calling. These essays explore migrants' motivations in support of
an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in
religion.
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