Immigrants and Politics Blog

New Book: A Place to Be edited by Philip J. Williams, Timothy J. Steigenga, and Manuel A Vásquez (Rutgers U. Press)

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.

“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
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).
To purchase A Place to Be online, please visit:
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/A_Place_to_Be.html