God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights
In this compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia.

About the Author:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration and Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence, and the editor of Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, all from UC Press

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God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights
In this compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia.

About the Author:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration and Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence, and the editor of Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, all from UC Press

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God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights

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In this compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia.

About the Author:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration and Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence, and the editor of Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, all from UC Press


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520944343
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 02/20/2009
Edition description: Unabridged

About the Author

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration and Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, both from UC Press. She is also the editor of Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends (UC Press)

Table of Contents

1 Welcoming the Alien? 1

Pt. I Redeeming Citizens

2 Muslim American Immigrants after 9/11: The Struggle for Civil Rights 27

3 The Moderate Mainstream 53

Pt. II Worker Justice

4 Take Your Good Friday to the Streets! 73

5 Faith in the Union 104

Pt. III Faith Sin Fronteras

6 Enacting Christian Antiborderism 133

7 Jesus Would Stand at the Border and Would Not Accept It 151

8 Religious Rule or Religious Voices? 170

Appendix Research Methods 197

Notes 203

References 225

List of Interviews 237

Index 241

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"Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a compelling account underlining the importance of the religious perspective in recent immigration activism."—Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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