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A Place to Be
Price: $25.95
Subtitle: Brazilian,
Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations
Editors:
Philip J. Williams,
Timothy J. Steigenga, and Manuel A Vásquez
Subject: Sociology,
Anthropology,
Latino American Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4493-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4492-2
Pages: 288 pages
Publication Date: March 2009
Praise for
A Place to Be
"A Place to Be is a must-read for
everyone interested in religion and transnational communities. The
book's innovative focus on lived religion and collective mobilization
considerably advances theories of both international migration and
religion."—Alex
Stepick, Director, Immigration & Ethnicity Institute, Florida
International University
"A cutting edge contribution that focuses on non-traditional places of
settlement, models new methods for analyzing religious geographies, and
highlights the important role of space, place, and time in immigrant
incorporation and mobilization."—Peggy Levitt, author
of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants
and the Changing American Religious Landscape
Description:
A Place to Be is the first book to
explore migration dynamics and community settlement among Brazilian,
Guatemalan, and Mexican immigrants in America’s new South. The book
adopts a fresh perspective to explore patterns of settlement in
Florida, including the outlying areas of Miami and beyond. The stellar
contributors from Latin America and the United States address the
challenges faced by Latino immigrants, their cultural and religious
practices, as well as the strategies used, as they move into areas
experiencing recent large-scale immigration.
Contributors to this volume include Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola,
Carol Girón Solórzano, Silvia Irene Palma, Lúcia
Ribeiro, Mirian Solís Lizama, José Claúdio Souza
Alves, Timothy J. Steigenga, Manuel A. Vásquez, and Philip J.
Williams.
About the Authors:
Philip J. Williams is
a professor of political science at the University of Florida and
coeditor of Christianity, Social
Change, and Globalization in the Americas (Rutgers University
Press).
Timothy J.
Steigenga is an associate professor of political science at
Florida Atlantic University and coeditor of Conversion of a Continent (Rutgers
University Press).
Manuel A.
Vásquez is an associate professor of religion at the
University of Florida and coauthor of Globalizing
the Sacred (Rutgers University Press).
Relevant Links:
Manual
Vásquez's
website
Center
for Latin American Studies
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