ABSTRACT
Transnational immigration refers to a process by which migrants nurture and maintain multi-stranded and multi-sited social relations that link together their communities of origin and settlement through a process of constant ethnic replenishment and revival. The expansion of communication technologies creates digital diasporas and Internet-based social networks that unite communities across borders, helping to reduce space-time distances, dis-embed social processes from a limited geographical area, and lift social relations out of their physical contexts. Migrants living outside the regions of origin play a crucial role, as evidence by the efforts of international organizations and national governments in wooing diasporas and transnationally active migrant associations to have an active role in development policy. Cultural religiosity is an aspect that has also experienced important changes in the United States as a result of Latin American migration. Among Latino migrants, faith and religion provide an important vehicle to affirm ethnic belonging and to organize for improving their quality of life.
