About the Author

Peggy Levitt is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College. She is also a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She is the author of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (The New Press); The Transnational Villagers; and a co-editor, with Mary Waters, of The Changing Face of Home. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Reviews

"A crucial look at the extraordinarily complex issue of migration in the world today." —Jorge G. Castañeda, author of Ex Mex and Utopia Unarmed

"Levitt takes the trouble to listen to immigrants themselves. . . . The book is timely in countering one-dimensional views of both religion and immigration." —George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee

"Levitt puts a human face on the globalization of religion. A wise and indispensable guide to understanding twenty-first-century American society." —Mary C. Water, Harvard University

"A crucial look at the extraordinarily complex issue of migration in the world today." Jorge G. Castaneda, author of Ex Mex and Utopia Unarmed

"Levitt takes the trouble to listen to immigrants themselves. . . . The book is timely in countering one-dimensional views of both religion and immigration." George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee

"Levitt puts a human face on the globalization of religion. A wise and indispensable guide to understanding twenty-first-century American society." Mary C. Water, Harvard University