Immigration, community formation, political incorporation, and why religion matters: migration and settlement patterns of the Indian diaspora
Because of the secularity of sociology, religion remains a relatively marginal field of study and the insights of the sociology of religion are generally ignored or overlooked within other subfields. But religion can be a force that deeply influences personal, community, and national life in nonobvi...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2014]
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| In: |
Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 4, Pages: 524-536 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Indians
/ Sociology
/ Migration
/ Integration
/ Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Because of the secularity of sociology, religion remains a relatively marginal field of study and the insights of the sociology of religion are generally ignored or overlooked within other subfields. But religion can be a force that deeply influences personal, community, and national life in nonobvious ways through shaping the social and political structures of society. Consequently, including an analysis of religion as a fundamental factor of social life could greatly enrich and even transform many subfields of sociology. In this essay, I focus on the sociology of migration and immigration, my area of research, and show how religion plays a central role in social, economic, and political processes surrounding migration. Drawing on case studies of migration and immigration of groups from India based on my research and that of others, I discuss how religion, through a variety of indirect and direct mechanisms, shapes migration patterns, remittance use, social incorporation into receiving societies, and forms of political mobilization. |
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| ISSN: | 1069-4404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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