ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the questions related to the fundamental rights in host countries and the immigrant's claim of fundamental rights by taking another approach. It proposes to analyze the experience of immigration in itself, looking for the immigrant's experience of fundamental rights in the very process of migration. The chapter also focuses on its religious dimension using data from anthropological and sociological research done in North America. After a brief North American contextualization deals with the diverse moments of the migration process: the decision-making and the departure, the integration into a community, and the social involvement. Western European countries strongly rooted in laicity are less open to recognize such a role for religion in the immigration experience. On the contrary, in North America and especially in the United States, the very narrative of the State's birth crosses the religious narrative directly.
