Based on materials from a recent qualitative study, carried out interviewing about twenty individuals currently living in the city of Genoa, Northern Italy, the paper deals with migrants' participation in the rites of their religion, in a context different from that of their society of origin. Its main goal is to understand whether such participation, which obviously has different modes in different religious faiths and is a moment of social inclusion, can be also a factor of social integration or exclusion regarding the society of settlement