Immigrants, Immigration, and Sociology: Reflecting on the State of the Discipline

Menjívar, Cecilia

doi:10.1111/j.1475-682x.2009.00313.x

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“…Finally, we agree with Menjívar (2010) that immigration research could benefit by shifting away from a strict focus on individual characteristics (i.e., culture) toward explanations that emphasize structure and agency. We would add that immigration research can also be informed by cross-fertilizing it with other structural themes involving religious ecology and other macro-level predictors of victimization.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Church, Place, and Crime: Latinos and Homicide in New Destinations*

Shihadeh

Winters

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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Latinos are moving beyond traditional areas and settling in new, potentially disorganized destinations. Without an established immigrant community, new destinations appear to rely more on the local religious ecology to regulate community life and to keep crime low. We examine the link between religious ecology and Latino homicide victimization for traditional and new destination counties. We observe four findings. (1) A Catholic presence has no effect on Latino violence in the old and well-organized traditional settlement areas. But in new Latino settlement areas, a Catholic presence substantially lowers violence against Latinos. In contrast, mainline Protestantism is linked to high levels of violence against Latinos in new destinations. (2) Previous claims that Latino communities are safe do not apply to new destinations, where Latinos are murdered at a high rate. (3) Previous claims that areas with high Latino immigration are safe for Latinos are not true for new destinations. (4) New Latino destinations offer little insulation from the effects of economic deprivation on violence. We discuss the implications of the findings.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Church, Place, and Crime: Latinos and Homicide in New Destinations*

Shihadeh

Winters

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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“…These chapters have drawn on the rich information available in the MAFE-Senegal dataset to complement the analyses of legal status with other contextual and individual predictors of action. The results indicate that lack of secure legal status can serve as important legal constraint on the actions of migrants (Sciortino 2004) and contribute to the growing research literature on legal status as an important axis of stratification in modern societies (Massey 2007;Menjívar 2010). The results also demonstrate that legal status constrains but does not completely determine migrants' actions (Van Meeteren 2012).…”

Section: Legal Status and Transnational Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 61%

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Vickstrom¹

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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Migrants from Senegal have gained renown for their mobility, especially to European destinations. In 2010 Senegalese migrants accounted for more than 4% of migrants born in sub-Saharan Africa living in OECD countries, while Senegal accounted for less than 1.5% of the total population of sub-Saharan Africa. Senegalese migrants were the largest sub-Saharan African migrant group in Italy and Spain in 2010, accounting respectively for 23% and 27% of all sub-Saharan migrants, and the third-largest such group in France, accounting for 13% of the population born in this region. Senegalese also made up a significant share of the overall foreign-born population in these three destination countries: almost 1% in Spain, 1.3% in Italy, and 1.6% in France. While Senegalese migrants have established a presence overseas, they have also profoundly shaped the economy and culture of Senegal. Not only does Senegal rank third in sub-Saharan Africa in the total volume of cash remittances received, but a “culture of migration” has emerged in Senegal that values the economic and social contributions of emigrants. Senegalese migrants themselves also remain connected to Senegal for their sense of social status.

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“…Diversifying the study of religion can also contribute to other fields in the social sciences, such as work on immigration or politics, pushing beyond Christian and North American parochialism. As Cecilia Menjívar (2010) reflects, “[t]he resurgence in immigration scholars’ interest in religion is opening the door to a rich conversation in the sociology of religion as the work on immigration and religion pushes conventional domestic boundaries to engage questions and issues relevant beyond the U.S. context” (p. 11). Diversifying the study of religion can also offer insight into public and scholarly political debates.…”

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confidence: 99%

Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next 70 Years

Ecklund

2020

Scientific Study of Religion

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Here I argue that we need to diversify the social scientific study of religion and chart a plan for how we are already and will continue to do so. At the time of the 70th anniversary of our association, I reflect on where—as an association—we have come from and where we are going. Our origin story points to an expansive vision for what would become the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), but unfortunately our past has also been marked by an overrepresentation of white male leadership. It was only in 1982 that the society elected its first woman president, Mary Augusta Neal, and only in 2015 that it elected its first person of color, Fenggang Yang. Here, I discuss our hope for a more diverse future: attending to diversity in studies of religion, diversity in the groups of people who are encouraged to study religion, and efforts to translate religion research well to diverse groups of listeners. I share with you pieces of the new SSSR strategic plan, spearheaded in 2018 by Korie Edwards, the first black and woman of color President of the SSSR: particularly the pieces that are most attentive to diversity. I also highlight insights from my own scholarly story about diversity that I have learned through my work with the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University.

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Immigrants, Immigration, and Sociology: Reflecting on the State of the Discipline

Cited by 24 publications

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Church, Place, and Crime: Latinos and Homicide in New Destinations*

Church, Place, and Crime: Latinos and Homicide in New Destinations*

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Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next 70 Years

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