How Has Religiosity Influenced the Restrictiveness of Marriage Immigration Policy in Serbia, Denmark, and the United States?

Authors

Uros Prokic, Portland State UniversityFollow

Keywords

Marriage Migration, Religious Attitudes, Religious Institutions, Migration Policy, Immigration Restrictions, Serbia, Denmark, United States

Abstract

The following paper draws attention and investigates the impact of religion, specifically religiosity, on the development of marriage immigration policy in Serbia, Denmark, and the United States. In directly comparing between the three states, significant evidence suggests that religiosity has clearly influenced the restrictiveness of marriage immigration policy altogether. Whether indirectly or indirectly, through a defined politico-religious institution or a call to cultural religious tradition, the fact remains that religion presents a powerful force in influencing the restriction of marriage immigration policy. Whether through its concern for ethnic purity, cultural homogeneity, or sexuality, religiosity remains a powerful factor when discussing marriage migration policy that cannot be denied. The factor of religion places a heavy normative burden that calls for a constrained view of migration, suggesting that imposing restrictions on marriage immigration is the expression of a more weighted approach to the sanctity of the human condition.

Publication Date

June 2016

DOI

10.15760/hgjpa.2016-1.8

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17382

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Prokic, Uros (2016) "How Has Religiosity Influenced the Restrictiveness of Marriage Immigration Policy in Serbia, Denmark, and the United States?," Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 8.
https://doi.org/10.15760/hgjpa.2016-1.8