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Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix
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This study examines Salvadoran immigrants' views of both their participation in the church and the role the church plays in their lives. The focus is on Catholic and Evangelical churches among Salvadoran immigrants in three locations — San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, an approach that allows the examination of the effects of receiving communities on the role religious institutions play in immigrant life. Data come from qualitative field research conducted in the 1990s and 100 in-depth interviews, complemented with interviews of religious leaders and community workers. Catholic and Evangelical churches, following distinct religious teachings, provide different avenues for immigrants to achieve their goals — collective and individual — and enrich the immigrants' lives and their surrounding communities, an outcome that seems independent of the specific receiving community. Although both churches provide assistance, the approach they take (and the religious teachings that shape how assistance is provided) may influence the immigrants' long-term integration.
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“One of the most important spaces for Salvadorans and Guatemalans to obtain varied forms of assistance and to connect with others is the church, a situation that is intimately linked to the immigrants' marginal legality (Menjı ´var 2003).”
From Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants' Lives in the United States (2006) · cites this paper as Menjívar 2003
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“Although evangelical (mostly Pentecostal) churches have not created a similar infrastructure of support and lack the institutional organization that permits larger congregations to coordinate efforts at national and even international levels, they too have played a central role in the immigrants' lives (Menjı ´var 1999 b , 2001, 2003).”
From Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants' Lives in the United States (2006) · cites this paper as Menjívar 2003
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Metadata
- Authors
- Menjivar, C.
- Venue
- Sociology of Religion
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 1069-4404 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2017428410
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociology of Religion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society in Latin America
- Keywords
- Salvadoran immigrants, Catholic Church, evangelical churches, religious participation, immigrant integration, receiving communities, religious organizations, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Phoenix
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