ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how immigration, religion, and place affect inequality and the relationship between religion and inequality, with a focus on how religion can often justify inequalities. It discusses the key role of place in producing and reproducing inequalities and addresses the relationship between place and inequality. Immigration and religion are also tied together because public acceptance of immigrant groups varies based on their religion. Generally, greater social and economic inequality in a country encourages the poorer citizens to move to less unequal countries. The Mexican government has also responded to labor needs domestically by working with the United States government to stem illegal migration. Over time in the United States, there has been a gradual trend of increasing support for immigration. The government helps to create ethnic communities when it resettles people from a particular country into the same region. Even the traditionally more liberal Scandinavian countries have increasingly embraced anti-immigration arguments.
