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Since the arrival of the Puritans, various religious groups,
including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and Protestant sects, have
migrated to the United States. The role of religion in motivating
their migration and shaping their settlement experiences has been
well documented. What has not been recorded is the contemporary
story of how migrants from Mexico and Central America rely on
religion-their clergy, faith, cultural expressions, and everyday
religious practices-to endure the undocumented journey. At a time
when anti-immigrant feeling is rising among the American public and
when immigration is often cast in economic or deviant terms,
Migration Miracle humanizes the controversy by exploring the harsh
realities of the migrants' desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300
interviews with men, women, and children, Jacqueline Hagan focuses
on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking-the role of
religion and faith in surviving the journey. Each year hundreds of
thousands of migrants risk their lives to cross the border into the
United States, yet until now, few scholars have sought migrants'
own accounts of their experiences.
The new immigrants coming to the United States and establishing
ethnic congregations do not abandon religious ties in their home
countries. Rather, as they communicate with family and friends left
behind in their homelands, they influence religious structures and
practices there. Religion Across Borders examines both personal and
organizational networks that exist between members in U.S.
immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious
institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New
Immigrants (2000) their previous study of immigrant religious
communities in Houston sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how
religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how
these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and
how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled.
The study's unique comparative perspective looks at differing faith
groups (Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist) from Argentina, Mexico,
Guatamala, Vietnam and China. Data on ways in which historic,
geographic, economic and religious factors influence transnational
religious ties makes necessary reading for students of immigration,
religion and anyone interested in the increasingly global aspects
of American religion.
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