Migration miracle
Subtitle: faith, hope, and the undocumented journey
By: Jacqueline Hagan.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780674030855
Subjects: Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States; Immigrants -- United States -- Interviews; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Jacqueline Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking-the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey. Each year hundreds of thousands of migrants risk their lives to cross the border into the United States, yet until now few scholars have sought migrants' own accounts of their experiences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Decision-making and leave taking; title: The dangerous journey; title: Churches crossing borders; title: Miracles in the desert; title: La promesa; title: Conclusion.