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Religion as A Context of Reception: The Case of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris
Author(s) -
Mooney Margarita A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12073
Subject(s) - miami , immigration , secularism , state (computer science) , ideology , context (archaeology) , sociology , nationalism , ethnography , government (linguistics) , gender studies , census , political science , law , history , anthropology , population , demography , politics , linguistics , philosophy , environmental science , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , soil science
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Montreal and Paris, I show that the general pattern of consensual differentiation between religion and state in the US favours the more successful symbolic and socio‐economic incorporation of Haitians in Miami, whereas secular nationalism in Quebec and assertive secularism in France weaken the incorporation of Haitian immigrants in Montreal and Paris, respectively.