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PUBLICATIONS


ARTICLES

Forthcoming, 2009. “Roots and Routes: Understanding the Lives of the Second Generation Transnationally” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOWNLOAD PDF

Forthcoming, 2008. "Rezar por encima de las fronteras: Como los inmigrantes estan cambiando el panorama religioso." Migracion y Desarollo. DOWNLOAD PDF

Forthcoming, 2008. “Religion as a Path to Civic Engagement and Civically-Infused Religion” Racial and Ethnic Studies (Special Volume edited by Marco Martinelli and Jean-Michel LeFleur. DOWNLOAD PDF

2007. “Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends ” (with B. Nadya Jaworsky) Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 33, August 2007, pp. 129-156.

2006. “God Needs No Passport: How Immigrants are Changing American Religious Life” Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Fall 2006: 45-57.

2005. “Building Bridges: What Migration Scholarship and Cultural Sociology Have to Say to Each other.” Poetics. Special Volume edited by Lyn Spillman and Marc Jacobs, 33(1): 49–62.

2004. "Transnational Perspectives on Migration: Conceptualizing Simultaneity"
(with Nina Glick Schiller) International Migration Review, Vol. 38 (145):
595-629. DOWNLOAD PDF

2004. “The Transnational Turn in Migration Studies” (with Ninna Nyberg Sorenson) Global Migration Perspectives No. 6, October 2004. Global Commission on Migration. 

2004. “Transnational Migrants: When Home Means More Then One Country.” Migration Fundamentals. Migration Policy Group.

2004. “Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds” Contexts 3(2): 20–27.

2004. “Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life.” Sociology of Religion, 65(1):1–18.

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CHAPTERS

2007. “The Changing Contours of Immigrant Religious Life” in eds. Gokce
Yurdakul and Michael Bodemann. Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 124-156.  

Forthcoming. “I Feel I am a Citizen of the World and of a Church Without Borders: The Latino Religious Experience” In eds. Rodolfo de la Garza, Louis DeSipio, and Harry Pachon, Becoming Latinos, Latinos Becoming. New York: Simon and Schuster. DOWNLOAD PDF

Forthcoming. “Constructing Transnational Studies” (with Sanjeev Khagram) in ed. Ludger Pries Surveying the Transnational Approach and Looking for Transnational Organizations. New York and London: Routledge Press. DOWNLOAD PDF

2006. “Dominicans: The Prototypical Transnational Migrants”. In eds. Mary Waters and Reed Ueda. The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 399-412.

2006. “Following the Migrants: Religious Pluralism in Transnational Perspective.” In ed. Nancy Tatom Ammerman. Religion in Modern Lives. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 103-121.

2006. "Transnational Migration: Conceptual and Policy Challenges." In eds. Joakim Palme and Kristof Tamas and Globalizing Migration Regimes. Avebury: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 23-36.

2005. “Does God Fit Within the Normal Curve?: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Immigrant Religion." In ed. Helen Rose Ebaugh. Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions. New York: Plenum Press.

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INVITED LECTURES

"La Educacíon de la Segunda Generación desde una Perspectiva
Transnacional."
Public lecture delivered at seminar on educational
challenges facing Spain organized by the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the
Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, October 2006. DOWNLOAD PDF

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