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Religious beliefs and practices have served as significant motivations for migration, with people seeking religious freedom or fleeing religious persecution. [2] This interaction of religion and migration has led to the spread and diversity of religions around the world, as well as the emergence of new religious practices and beliefs as people ...
Vertovec’s doctoral work concerned religion, ethnicity and socio-economic development in Trinidad, West Indies. [2] Since then, his work has examined issues surrounding ethnic and religious minorities, international migration, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, diasporas, transnationalism, diversity and super-diversity. He has mainly ...
Comparative religion is the branch of the study of religions with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the world's religions. In general the comparative study of religion yields a deeper understanding of the fundamental philosophical concerns of religion such as ethics ...
The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the series, retains the same structure as its predecessors, and has the aim “to set out in clear and accurate terms the changes occurring in migration and mobility globally.” [4] The first part of the report consists of four chapters, which provide updated migration statistics at the global ...
The journal publishes articles written by demographers, economists, political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists. International Migration publishes on topics relating to migration such as asylum , development, emigration , human rights , labor , [ 1 ] remittance and refugees .
He is the editor of several international peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Migration Letters, Transnational Business and Management [5], and Goc Dergisi [6]. He authored several books including Cultures of Migration published by University of Texas Press in 2011, and The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of ...
A tawiz. The black pouch contains a paper with duas (prayers) written on them.. A tawiz (Urdu: تعویز, Hindi: तावीज़), [1] muska (), ta'wiz, or taʿwīdh (Arabic: تعويذ) is an amulet or locket worn for protection common in South Asia.
Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and a co-founder of the Global (De)Centre.Her latest book, Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (co-authored with Erica Dobbs, Ken Sun, and Ruxandra Paul) was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.