ABSTRACT
The relations between religion and immigration reveal great heterogeneity, even when we just compare their manifestations in national spaces commonly taken as relatively homogeneous in terms of a large set of other social features. We can certainly admit that such diversity is, to some extent, the inevitable corollary of the contingent nature of all mobility flows and of the crossing of cultures they always imply. However, there are reasons to think that the new patterns of migration induced in the last decades by the uneven and deregulated globalization of economies may have introduced additional complexity and variability to the phenomena here in question.
