A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations

Contents

Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Understanding Transnationalism, Collective Mobilization, and Lived Religion in New Immigrant Destinations 1 PHILIP J. WILLIAMS, MANUEL A. VÁSQUEZ, AND TIMOTHY J. STEIGENGA PART ONE Transnational Lives: Networks, Families, and Solidarities across Borders 2 Beyond Homo Anomicus: Interpersonal Networks, Space, and Religion among Brazilians in Broward County 33 MANUEL A. VÁSQUEZ 3 From Jacaltenango to Jupiter: Negotiating the Concept of “Family” through Transnational Space and Time 57 SILVIA IRENE PALMA, CAROL GIRÓN SOLÓRZANO, AND TIMOTHY J. STEIGENGA 4 Solidarities among Mexican Immigrants in Immokalee 80 PATRICIA FORTUNY LORET DE MOLA, MIRIAN SOLÍS LIZAMA, AND PHILIP J. WILLIAMS PART TWO Collective Mobilization and Empowerment 5 Transnationalism and Collective Action among Guatemalan and Mexican Immigrants in Two Florida Communities 103 TIMOTHY J. STEIGENGA AND PHILIP J. WILLIAMS CONTENTS v 6 Immigrant Regime of Production: The State, Political Mobilization, and Religious and Business Networks among Brazilians in South Florida 128 JOSÉ CLAÚDIO SOUZA ALVES PART THREE Identities and Lived Religion 7 Lived Religion and a Sense of Home: The Ambiguities of Transnational Identity among Jacaltecos in Jupiter 151 TIMOTHY J. STEIGENGA, SILVIA IRENE PALMA, AND CAROL GIRÓN SOLÓRZANO 8 Looking for Lived Religion in Immokalee 170 PHILIP J. WILLIAMS AND PATRICIA FORTUNY LORET DE MOLA 9 Brazilian and Mexican Women: Interacting with God in Florida 190 PATRICIA FORTUNY LORET DE MOLA, LÚCIA RIBEIRO, AND MIRIAN SOLÍS LIZAMA 10 A Place to Be: New and Old Geographies of Latin American Migration in Florida and Beyond 209 TIMOTHY J. STEIGENGA, MANUEL A. VÁSQUEZ, AND PHILIP J. WILLIAMS Contributors 227 Index 231 CONTENTS vi ...