Recently Published Works or Works in Press

Works in Progress

Invited Lectures

PUBLICATIONS

RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORKS OR WORKS IN PRESS

“Law from Below: Women’s Human Rights and Social Movements in New York City.” Law and Society Review 44 (with Sally Merry, Mihaela Serban Rosen, and Diana Yoon), in press.

“Taking Culture Seriously: The Unexplored Nexus Between Migration, Development, and Incorporation.” La Revue Européenee de Migrations Internationales, in press.

“Learning to Pray: Negotiating Religious Practice across Generations and Borders.” (with Melissa Barnett and Nancy Khalil) In eds. Karen Fog Olwig and Mikkel Rytter. Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, in press.

“Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide.” (with Sally Merry). In ed. Dorothy Hodgson. Gender at the Limit of Rights, edited by Dorothy Hodgson. Series: Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, in press.

“Vernacularization on the ground: Local uses of global women’s rights in Peru, China, India and the United States.” (with Sally Merry) Global Networks 2009: 9 (4): 441–461. Introduction to a special issue on local uses of global women's rights.

“Routes and Roots: Understanding the Lives of the Second Generation
Transnationally.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2009: 35(7):1225-1242.

“Constructing Religious Life Transnationally: Lessons from the U.S. Experience.” In ed. Paul Bramadat and Matthias Koenig. International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2009.

“Religion as a Path to Civic Engagement and Civically-Infused Religion.” Racial and Ethnic Studies 2008: 31(4): 766-791.

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

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Social Remittances Reconsidered.” (with Deepak Lamba-Nieves) International Migration Review, under review. DOWNLOAD PDF.

“Vernacularization in Action: Combining Global and Local Ideas about Women’s Rights in Peru.” (with Sally Merry), under review.

“Culture in Motion—How Global Ideas get Vernacularized in Local Contexts” (with Sally Merry, N. Rajaram, and Vaishali Zararia), under review. DOWNLOAD PDF.

“The City as Context: Culture and Scale in New Immigrant Destinations.” (with Wendy Cadge, Sara Curran, and Nadya Jaworsky), under review. DOWNLOAD PDF.

“Bringing Culture Back In: Opportunities and Challenges for the Migration Development Nexus.” (with Deepak Lamba-Nieves) In eds. Joseph Stiglitz. Managing Migration: Maximizing Development and Well-being in Sending and Receiving Nations. New York: Columbia University Press, under review.

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RECENT INVITED LECTURES

“God Needs No Passport: The Religious Lives of Immigrants and their Children.” University of Southern California, September 2009.

“Creating Global Citizens? The Role of National Cultural Institutions.” George Mason University, September 2009.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Migration.” All China Women’s Federation/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conference on Migration, Gender, and Globalization, Beijing, China, July 2009.

“God Needs No Passport: Creating Global Religious Citizens.” University of Bristol, England, June 2009.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “Creating Global Citizens?: Lessons from Women’s Rights Activism.” CRONEM/AHRC Annual Conference, University of Surrey, Guilford, England, June 2009.

“Managing Religious Pluralism: Comparing France and the United States.” National Demographic Institute (INED), Paris, June 2009.

“Bringing Culture Back In: Rethinking the Migration and Development Nexus.” Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, May 2009.

“Learning to Pray: The Religious Lives of the Second Generation.” Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls Conference, University of Copenhagen, April 2009.

“God Needs No Passport: Comparing the U.S. and Finland.” University of Helsinki, April 2009.

“Museums, the Nation, and the Globe.” University of Copenhagen, April 2009.

“Women’s Rights and Global Rights.” University of Lund, Sweden, April 2009.

“Religion Across Borders: Comparative Perpsectives.” Vaxjo University, Sweden, March 2009

“The Religious Lives of the Second Generation.” Vrije University, Amsterdam, February 2009

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© 2009 Peggy J. Levitt