Ernesto Castañeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 73002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernesto Castañeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernesto |
| FAMILY NAME | Castañeda |
| SIGNATURE | CASTAÑEDA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3351-1099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Charles Tilly’s Theories About the Origins of European Nation-States, Social Movements, Contentious Politics, and Democracy
The oeuvre of Charles Tilly provides a helpful model of how to conduct social science. Nevertheless, most readers are familiar only with a subset of his works. Consequently, Tilly’s contributions are often understood as being limited to a few hypotheses or statements, often cited out of context or in an over-simplified manner. This article aims to provide a more extensive overview of Tilly’s work and its continued relevance. It introduces some of…
Comparative Sociology, Global History, and Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly is a towering figure in the social sciences. His work has influenced generations of scholars across disciplines, yet younger generations are often less familiar with his work. This is a lost opportunity given the analytical depth of Tilly's oeuvre. Much of his work on areas outside of state formation and social movements remains underutilized, while research agendas across the social sciences can be strengthened by building on his w…
Reunited
Reunited focuses on Central American youth who migrate without their parents to the United States, particularly to the suburbs of Washington, DC, and how they reunite with family members. The book explains the circumstances of these migrants’ arrival and puts their experiences in socio-historical context. The authors discuss Central American migration to the country and DC region and the methods used to collect data; provide a brief recent histor…
The Impact of Cultural Health Capital on Market Choice Along the Texas-Mexico Border
The Implications of Health Disparities
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Latinos have suffered from disproportionately high rates of hospitalization and death related to the virus. Health disparities based on race and ethnicity are directly associated with heightened mortality and burden of illness and act as underlying causes for the staggering impacts of COVID-19 in Latin communities in the United States. This is especially true in the city of El Paso…
Keeping in Motion or Staying Put
The rate of people moving within the United States is at one of its lowest points in U.S. history, while China has experienced unprecedented levels of domestic migration. While both are world-leading economies, these countries demonstrate stark contrasts in geographic mobility, urbanization, and economic growth. Despite these differences, social factors affect migration capabilities in both places, with some people more mobile than others. This s…
January 6th and De-Democratization in the United States
The events of January 6th were a clear example of threats to American democracy. De-democratization is a process that preceded Trump's election and that can still be seen in the United States and around the world. Social theorist Charles Tilly wrote about how becoming a democracy is not a unidirectional, one-time event or goal, but a non-linear process. This paper analyzes developments in the United States that signal rises and falls in the level…
Elements of a riot
This article looks at the aftermath of riots in a suburban area of Paris to make a larger argument about what produces riots, the role of police violence, the activation of social boundaries, and the implied set of demands during and after riots. It uses the methods of visual sociology to show how youth often target symbols of the state to respond to state violence in an asymmetrical confrontation when they feel they do not have a political voice…
Conducting Research with Marginalized Populations
Marginalized populations, such as people experiencing homelessness and immigrants, are seen as among the most challenging populations to study, both methodologically and ethically. Although there are basic guidelines on how to conduct research with majority populations, the relative lack of published guidelines on how to conduct ethical and scientifically rigorous research with marginalized populations can make researchers apprehensive about seem…
Deservingness
This article brings the social science concept of ‘deservingness’ to bear on clinical cases of transnational migrant patients. Based on the authors’ medical social science research, health delivery practice and clinical work from multiple locations in Africa. Europe and the Americas, the article describes three clinical cases in which assumptions of deservingness have significant implications for the morbidity and mortality of migrant patients. T…
A Place to Call Home
What makes some cities successful in integrating immigrants while others fail? Using ethnographic observation, original survey data, and interviews conducted in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, Ernesto Castañeda compares the experiences of Latino and North African migrants and sets out to answer how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of "belonging" for its migrants
Social Movements, 1768–2008
This expanded second edition of Tilly's widely acclaimed 2004 book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as immigrants' rights, new media technologies, anti-Olympic organizing in China, new mobilizations against the Iraq War, and the role of bloggers and Facebook in social movement activities. Coverage of these and other recent events serve to expand further the book's seminal…
Hispanic health disparities and housing
Previous studies argue that Hispanics are healthier and less likely to experience homelessness than other populations in their same socioeconomic position. However, earlier studies have not explored the relationship between housing status and health for Latin individuals. This study examines 1) the health disparities between homeless and housed Hispanics in El Paso, Texas, and 2) the Hispanic health and homelessness paradoxes using an intersectio…
Finding a Home in the City
The Gray Zone
Reviewed by: The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe by Gregory Feldman Ernesto Castañeda Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 214 pp. Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 201…
Sick Enough? Mental Illness and Service Eligibility for Homeless Individuals at the Border
This paper measures mental illness among individuals experiencing homelessness in a border city and compares it to the general housed population. We use original data from a homeless survey conducted in El Paso, Texas. Respondents self-reported any possible mental illness or related symptoms. We find that mental illness is not disproportionally common among the homeless, yet this is something that is often claimed by laypersons, some social servi…
"Introduction to "Reshaping the World
This paper provides some historical context to understand border formations. By comprehending how our present system of borders and exclusions function, we can gain a new appreciation for migration. Moreover, it presents arguments for open borders to counter anti-immigrant policies, includes short summaries of relevant research, as well as for each article included in this Special Issue. Together, these articles show how more welcoming policies t…
Overselling Globalization
Many think that immigration is something caused by globalization, and some subsequently blame immigrants for the increased inequalities produced by economic globalization. Xenophobic nationalism has gained popularity around the world, further increasing racial tensions but without addressing the underlying causes of growing socioeconomic inequality, which this paper strives to show is caused by economic policies, not immigration. This paper argue…
Border Residents' Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas
Research has continued to show the overall safety of the U.S. border region contrary to the widespread belief about the insecurity of the U.S.-Mexico border and frequent claims for the need to secure the border in order to prevent the spread of violence into the rest of the country. Rarely do we ask how border residents feel about safety and crime, which could shed significant light on the claims that the border is an insecure warzone posing a th…
Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations
This article compares immigrant and ethnic organizations in four major immigrant-receiving cities and reveals substantial variation across these immigrant gateway cities. Using data from ethnographic fieldwork and an original database of relevant organizations in New York City; El Paso, Texas; Paris; and Barcelona, I find differences in organizational type and density, as well as in their legitimacy and funding. This article contributes to a grow…
Gringolandia
Social Movements, 1768–2018
Social Movements, 1768 - 2018
Improving Homeless Point-In-Time Counts
This article discusses improvements made to the methodology of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) point-in-time (PIT) homeless census. HUD’s PIT results are presented to Congress as official data for policy consideration. Yet, PIT methodology focuses on visible street homeless individuals and those in shelters while neglecting the “marginally housed” or less visible homeless who live in automobiles or temporarily stay with friends and extend…
Empowerment through work
This article discusses workers at two organizations: one employing disabled individuals and another employing low-skilled Mexican-American women. Workers at both organizations show positive effects from employment, including having increased self-efficacy and self-esteem, valuing work as a source of income and personal growth, as well as developing a sense of community. These perceptions contrast sharply with statements presented about how they v…
TheIndignadosof Spain
Faced with an economic crisis, people took to the streets and camped in urban plazas throughout Spain in May 2011. Many people were successfully mobilized by a generalized sense of frustration, indignation and impotency in the face of coming elections where many citizens felt there were no real alternative economic and social policies offered, nor the possibility to vote for government programmes that would deal with the crisis in a way that prio…
Improving Homeless Point-In-Time Counts
This article discusses improvements made to the methodology of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) point-in-time (PIT) homeless census. HUD’s PIT results are presented to Congress as official data for policy consideration. Yet, PIT methodology focuses on visible street homeless individuals and those in shelters while neglecting the “marginally housed” or less visible homeless who live in automobiles or temporarily stay with friends and extend…
Border Residents' Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas
Research has continued to show the overall safety of the U.S. border region contrary to the widespread belief about the insecurity of the U.S.-Mexico border and frequent claims for the need to secure the border in order to prevent the spread of violence into the rest of the country. Rarely do we ask how border residents feel about safety and crime, which could shed significant light on the claims that the border is an insecure warzone posing a th…
Transnational Behavior in Comparative Perspective
This paper examines transnationalism across migrant generational statuses in three urban centers. The objective of this study is to explore how immigrant integration influences the maintenance of social and economic connections with the communities-of-origin. To accomplish this objective we examine the impact of socio-economic status and generational status (first to third) on whether respondents remit, visit their communities-of-origin, or desir…
Living in Limbo
In recent years, the reception of remittances by migrant‐sending countries has been quantified and well advertised. Many have predicted economic development based on the magnitude of these aggregate figures, leaving aside the fact that new family arrangements, emigration expectations, consumption patterns and demographic changes impact the prospects for development. This paper shows how remittances link distant locations economically, socially an…
"Introduction to "Reshaping the World
This paper provides some historical context to understand border formations. By comprehending how our present system of borders and exclusions function, we can gain a new appreciation for migration. Moreover, it presents arguments for open borders to counter anti-immigrant policies, includes short summaries of relevant research, as well as for each article included in this Special Issue. Together, these articles show how more welcoming policies t…
Overselling Globalization
Many think that immigration is something caused by globalization, and some subsequently blame immigrants for the increased inequalities produced by economic globalization. Xenophobic nationalism has gained popularity around the world, further increasing racial tensions but without addressing the underlying causes of growing socioeconomic inequality, which this paper strives to show is caused by economic policies, not immigration. This paper argue…
Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations
This article compares immigrant and ethnic organizations in four major immigrant-receiving cities and reveals substantial variation across these immigrant gateway cities. Using data from ethnographic fieldwork and an original database of relevant organizations in New York City; El Paso, Texas; Paris; and Barcelona, I find differences in organizational type and density, as well as in their legitimacy and funding. This article contributes to a grow…
Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly's work as a historical sociologist and on states, social change and other topics has had powerful influence across the social sciences and social history, also having a large popular audience. Themes and issues in his work over time are explored, in particular his developing thinking about national states, macro and micro processes, stories and social change
Hispanic health disparities and housing
Previous studies argue that Hispanics are healthier and less likely to experience homelessness than other populations in their same socioeconomic position. However, earlier studies have not explored the relationship between housing status and health for Latin individuals. This study examines 1) the health disparities between homeless and housed Hispanics in El Paso, Texas, and 2) the Hispanic health and homelessness paradoxes using an intersectio…
The Indignados and Occupy movements as political challenges to representative democracy
This is a reply to:Eklundh, Emmy. 2014. “Who is speaking? The Indignados as political subjects.” Global Discourse. 4 (2–3): 223–235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.910058
Folkloric Poverty
January 6th and De-Democratization in the United States
The events of January 6th were a clear example of threats to American democracy. De-democratization is a process that preceded Trump's election and that can still be seen in the United States and around the world. Social theorist Charles Tilly wrote about how becoming a democracy is not a unidirectional, one-time event or goal, but a non-linear process. This paper analyzes developments in the United States that signal rises and falls in the level…
Empowerment through work
This article discusses workers at two organizations: one employing disabled individuals and another employing low-skilled Mexican-American women. Workers at both organizations show positive effects from employment, including having increased self-efficacy and self-esteem, valuing work as a source of income and personal growth, as well as developing a sense of community. These perceptions contrast sharply with statements presented about how they v…
The Homeless and Occupy El Paso
Tensions between activists and the homeless were common across different Occupy locations. This article focuses on the Occupy movement in downtown El Paso, Texas. It discusses the interactions between activists and homeless people. Initially, as the Occupiers camped in the square they excluded the homeless. A pivotal point was when some Occupiers spoke out against the mistreatment of the homeless arguing that these prejudiced actions were example…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000
Charles Tilly’s Theories About the Origins of European Nation-States, Social Movements, Contentious Politics, and Democracy
The oeuvre of Charles Tilly provides a helpful model of how to conduct social science. Nevertheless, most readers are familiar only with a subset of his works. Consequently, Tilly’s contributions are often understood as being limited to a few hypotheses or statements, often cited out of context or in an over-simplified manner. This article aims to provide a more extensive overview of Tilly’s work and its continued relevance. It introduces some of…
Sick Enough? Mental Illness and Service Eligibility for Homeless Individuals at the Border
This paper measures mental illness among individuals experiencing homelessness in a border city and compares it to the general housed population. We use original data from a homeless survey conducted in El Paso, Texas. Respondents self-reported any possible mental illness or related symptoms. We find that mental illness is not disproportionally common among the homeless, yet this is something that is often claimed by laypersons, some social servi…
A geographically-aware multilevel analysis on the association between atmospheric temperature and the “Emergency and transitional shelter population”
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Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Homeless Populations in El Paso, Texas
This article compares Hispanic and non-Hispanic homeless populations in El Paso, Texas. Surveys were collected in “traditional homeless spaces” as well as in non-traditional spaces where Hispanics may be more heavily represented. Snowball techniques were also used to find and survey marginally housed individuals. Despite these improvements to typical homeless counts, this study finds Hispanics to be underrepresented when compared with the general…
A Nation of Emigrants
A Nation of Emigrants
Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly's work as a historical sociologist and on states, social change and other topics has had powerful influence across the social sciences and social history, also having a large popular audience. Themes and issues in his work over time are explored, in particular his developing thinking about national states, macro and micro processes, stories and social change
Folkloric Poverty
Replenished Ethnicity
Living in Limbo
In recent years, the reception of remittances by migrant‐sending countries has been quantified and well advertised. Many have predicted economic development based on the magnitude of these aggregate figures, leaving aside the fact that new family arrangements, emigration expectations, consumption patterns and demographic changes impact the prospects for development. This paper shows how remittances link distant locations economically, socially an…
The Homeless and Occupy El Paso
Tensions between activists and the homeless were common across different Occupy locations. This article focuses on the Occupy movement in downtown El Paso, Texas. It discusses the interactions between activists and homeless people. Initially, as the Occupiers camped in the square they excluded the homeless. A pivotal point was when some Occupiers spoke out against the mistreatment of the homeless arguing that these prejudiced actions were example…
TheIndignadosof Spain
Faced with an economic crisis, people took to the streets and camped in urban plazas throughout Spain in May 2011. Many people were successfully mobilized by a generalized sense of frustration, indignation and impotency in the face of coming elections where many citizens felt there were no real alternative economic and social policies offered, nor the possibility to vote for government programmes that would deal with the crisis in a way that prio…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000
Transnational Behavior in Comparative Perspective
This paper examines transnationalism across migrant generational statuses in three urban centers. The objective of this study is to explore how immigrant integration influences the maintenance of social and economic connections with the communities-of-origin. To accomplish this objective we examine the impact of socio-economic status and generational status (first to third) on whether respondents remit, visit their communities-of-origin, or desir…
The Indignados and Occupy movements as political challenges to representative democracy
This is a reply to:Eklundh, Emmy. 2014. “Who is speaking? The Indignados as political subjects.” Global Discourse. 4 (2–3): 223–235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.910058
A geographically-aware multilevel analysis on the association between atmospheric temperature and the “Emergency and transitional shelter population”
Description to be added
Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Homeless Populations in El Paso, Texas
This article compares Hispanic and non-Hispanic homeless populations in El Paso, Texas. Surveys were collected in “traditional homeless spaces” as well as in non-traditional spaces where Hispanics may be more heavily represented. Snowball techniques were also used to find and survey marginally housed individuals. Despite these improvements to typical homeless counts, this study finds Hispanics to be underrepresented when compared with the general…
Why Walls Won't Work
Contrary to what one often hears in the media, towns on the U.S. side of the U.S.–Mexico border are safe, peaceful, bicultural places. Why Walls Won't Work makes a needed contribution to the public
Substance Use by Immigrant Generation in a U.S.-Mexico Border City
Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change
I. Revolutions and Social Change 1. The Vendee 2. Strikes in France 1830-1968 3. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 4. From Mobilization to Revolution 5. Contentious Performances 6. Eight Pernicious Postulates II. State Making 7. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 8. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1990 III. Democratization 9. Democracy as a Lake 10. Where Do Rights Come from? 11. Democracy 12. Trust and Rule IV. Du…
Immigration and Categorical Inequality
Improving Homeless Point-In-Time Counts
This article discusses improvements made to the methodology of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) point-in-time (PIT) homeless census. HUD’s PIT results are presented to Congress as official data for policy consideration. Yet, PIT methodology focuses on visible street homeless individuals and those in shelters while neglecting the “marginally housed” or less visible homeless who live in automobiles or temporarily stay with friends and extend…
Empowerment through work
This article discusses workers at two organizations: one employing disabled individuals and another employing low-skilled Mexican-American women. Workers at both organizations show positive effects from employment, including having increased self-efficacy and self-esteem, valuing work as a source of income and personal growth, as well as developing a sense of community. These perceptions contrast sharply with statements presented about how they v…
Social Movements, 1768–2018
Social Movements, 1768 - 2018
A Place to Call Home
What makes some cities successful in integrating immigrants while others fail? Using ethnographic observation, original survey data, and interviews conducted in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, Ernesto Castañeda compares the experiences of Latino and North African migrants and sets out to answer how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of "belonging" for its migrants
Social Movements, 1768–2008
This expanded second edition of Tilly's widely acclaimed 2004 book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as immigrants' rights, new media technologies, anti-Olympic organizing in China, new mobilizations against the Iraq War, and the role of bloggers and Facebook in social movement activities. Coverage of these and other recent events serve to expand further the book's seminal…
Hispanic health disparities and housing
Previous studies argue that Hispanics are healthier and less likely to experience homelessness than other populations in their same socioeconomic position. However, earlier studies have not explored the relationship between housing status and health for Latin individuals. This study examines 1) the health disparities between homeless and housed Hispanics in El Paso, Texas, and 2) the Hispanic health and homelessness paradoxes using an intersectio…
Finding a Home in the City
The Gray Zone
Reviewed by: The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe by Gregory Feldman Ernesto Castañeda Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 214 pp. Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 201…
Sociology (31 works) · Political science (30 works) · Law (21 works) · Geography (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works)