Religion plays a central role in making transnational lives possible, something migration scholarship has not really explored.
Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt is an associate professor and the chair of the department of sociology at Wellesley College. She is also a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She is the author of The Transnational Villagers and a co-editor, with Mary Waters, of The Changing Face of Home. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.