Chinese Christian News – Study: Churches Serve as Major Channels for Latino Integration into U.S.

“Mexicans constitute the single largest immigrant population in the United States and evangelical churches often play a significant role in settling the more than 11 million migrants into U.S. localities, according to a new study by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute.

The latest study, “Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States,” explores the broad new upsurge in Latino immigrant participation in American civic and political life which emerged prominently in spring 2006. It found that Latinos – which has become an increasingly acceptable U.S. label for the Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans or Dominicans – have always been active in public life, rejecting the notion that the migrants are disengaged.”

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