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This analysis is focused on the bivariate relation between religion and the formation of transnational migration patterns and practices in a village from the Southern region of Romania. The data used in building the arguments was generated during a field research conducted in August 2012. The empirical material consists of field notes and interview transcripts that correspond to recorded conversations with local migrants, authority representatives and people without any migration experience. Conversations with interviewees are employed in order to analyse the social construction of religious identity within the community. They also show the way in which the experience of migration appears in interviews as relevant to the question of religious affiliation.
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Deliu, A. (2017). Religious Orientation, Migration and Identity Construction: Evidence from a Contemporary Romanian Rural Community. In: Sideri, E., Roupakia, L. (eds) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Religion and Global Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39067-3_5
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