Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
Biographic Data
| ID | 106474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Eduardo Guarnizo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis Eduardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Guarnizo |
| SIGNATURE | GUARNIZO L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9131-0084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Transnationalism From Below: Comparative Urban & Community Research
Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourses on transnationalism. A core theme in this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the info…
Paid domestic work, globalization, and informality
This paper examines the local demand for, and the level of informality of, domestic help in the Sacramento metropolitan area of California. It departs from the prevalent analytical approach that looks at domestic work from the supply side (i.e., the workers' perspective), and instead examines it from the demand side (i.e., the employers' perspective). Using a quantitative analytical strategy, it looks at the employer–employee relationship as embe…
Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post‐Industrial Economies
Dominant scholarly and policy discourse implicitly connect growth in immigration to growth in the informal economy and negative socio‐economic outcomes in post‐industrial societies. In this introduction, we highlight some of the broader questions and implications raised by the multidisciplinary work of our contributors that challenge this immigration‐informality hypothesis. We argue that existing studies of the informal economy in post‐industrial…
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
The migration-development nexus and the changing role of transnational immigrant organizations
The State and the Grassroots presents the results of studies of immigrant organizations engaged in transnational development initiatives from thirteen different immigrant nationalities in five countries of reception. The scale of this endeavour is unprecedented. The articles represent the fruit of a long-term project known as the Comparative Immigration Organizations Project (CIOP), which was launched by the Center for Migration and Development a…
Pakistani immigrant organisational spaces in Toronto and New York City
This study examines how ‘contexts of reception’ in two migrant cities shape the organisational infrastructure for Pakistani immigrant communities in Toronto and New York City (NYC). Previous research is divided into two epistemic camps, one focusing on locally oriented organisations promoting settlement/incorporation and the other on transnational organisations—thus obscuring the relationships between these organisations. The present study transc…
Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship
Global migration has reached historic levels affecting every single country in the world. One of the most significant effects of this heightened mobility has been that a growing proportion of the residents of migrant receiving places lack national citizenship and are thus deprived of effective sociopolitical inclusion, representation, and participation in the localities where they have moved to for work, refuge or retirement. This disjuncture bet…
Aspectos económicos del vivir transnacional
The economic relations of migrants with their home countries have been the object of significant, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary research. However, the majority of studies have been concerned primarily with the north-south flow of economic remittances that migrants send to their places of origin. This article, making use of a transnational perspective informed by the principles of economic sociology, argues that the north-south focus on mon…
The Economics of Transnational Living
Migrants' long-distance economic relations with their homelands have been the subject of an extensive, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary inquiry. Most existing studies have been primarily concerned with the north-south flow of monetary remittances that migrants send to their homelands. Using a transnational perspective informed by economic sociology tenets, this article argues that this north-south, monetary-centered approach is too limited, f…
Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants
This article presents evidence of the scale, relative intensity, and social determinants of immigrants’ transnational political engagement. It demonstrates that a stable and significant transnational field of political action connecting immigrants with their polities of origin does indeed exist. The results help temper celebratory images of the extent and effects of transnational engagement provided by some scholars. The article shows that migran…
Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation
The recent literature on immigrant transnationalism points to an alternative form of economic adaptation of foreign minorities in advanced societies that is based on the mobilization of their cross-country social networks. Case studies have noted the phenomenon's potential significance for immigrant integration into receiving countries and for the economic development in countries of origin. Despite their suggestive character, these studies consi…
Empresarios transnacionales: Una Forma Alternativa De Adaptación Económica De Los Inmigrantes
No abstract available. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 57, No. 648, 2002: 879-900
Transnational migration: A view from Colombia
This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Cali and Pereira. The project identified a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. These relations are heterogeneous and differentiated; what some scholars refer to as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regional…
Mistrust, fragmented solidarity, and transnational migration: Colombians in New York City and Los Angeles
This article compares the transnational economic, political, and sociocultural relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. The vast majority of these migrants are middle class and originally from large urban areas, which differs from the typical rural-origin migrants previously studied by transnational scholars. The analysis is based on theoretical developments from transnational studies and insights …
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
The Emergence of a Transnational Social Formation and The Mirage of Return Migration Among Dominican Transmigrants
Using a transnational perspective, this article analyzes the soriocul‐tural and political transformation of US‐Dominican transmigrants who have relocated to the Dominican Republic as one step in their transnational journey. Transmigrants and their society of origin have forged a dense web of transnational relations that unites them in a continuous transterritorial social formation. This formation is evident in the incessant back and forth traveli…
Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society
At the dawn of the 1990s, Dominicans are one of the fastest-growing and most conspicuous immigrant groups in the United States. In contrast to the prevailing conception of migrants as forming a stream of people, this article explores the U.S.-linked Dominican migration as a distinct social group, clearly distinguishable from its nonmigrant conationals and functioning in a transnational milieu. The article examines the group's own socioeconomic, c…
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation
The recent literature on immigrant transnationalism points to an alternative form of economic adaptation of foreign minorities in advanced societies that is based on the mobilization of their cross-country social networks. Case studies have noted the phenomenon's potential significance for immigrant integration into receiving countries and for the economic development in countries of origin. Despite their suggestive character, these studies consi…
Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants
This article presents evidence of the scale, relative intensity, and social determinants of immigrants’ transnational political engagement. It demonstrates that a stable and significant transnational field of political action connecting immigrants with their polities of origin does indeed exist. The results help temper celebratory images of the extent and effects of transnational engagement provided by some scholars. The article shows that migran…
The Economics of Transnational Living
Migrants' long-distance economic relations with their homelands have been the subject of an extensive, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary inquiry. Most existing studies have been primarily concerned with the north-south flow of monetary remittances that migrants send to their homelands. Using a transnational perspective informed by economic sociology tenets, this article argues that this north-south, monetary-centered approach is too limited, f…
Transnationalism From Below: Comparative Urban & Community Research
Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourses on transnationalism. A core theme in this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the info…
Mistrust, fragmented solidarity, and transnational migration: Colombians in New York City and Los Angeles
This article compares the transnational economic, political, and sociocultural relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. The vast majority of these migrants are middle class and originally from large urban areas, which differs from the typical rural-origin migrants previously studied by transnational scholars. The analysis is based on theoretical developments from transnational studies and insights …
The Emergence of a Transnational Social Formation and The Mirage of Return Migration Among Dominican Transmigrants
Using a transnational perspective, this article analyzes the soriocul‐tural and political transformation of US‐Dominican transmigrants who have relocated to the Dominican Republic as one step in their transnational journey. Transmigrants and their society of origin have forged a dense web of transnational relations that unites them in a continuous transterritorial social formation. This formation is evident in the incessant back and forth traveli…
Transnational migration: A view from Colombia
This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Cali and Pereira. The project identified a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. These relations are heterogeneous and differentiated; what some scholars refer to as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regional…
Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society
At the dawn of the 1990s, Dominicans are one of the fastest-growing and most conspicuous immigrant groups in the United States. In contrast to the prevailing conception of migrants as forming a stream of people, this article explores the U.S.-linked Dominican migration as a distinct social group, clearly distinguishable from its nonmigrant conationals and functioning in a transnational milieu. The article examines the group's own socioeconomic, c…
Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship
Global migration has reached historic levels affecting every single country in the world. One of the most significant effects of this heightened mobility has been that a growing proportion of the residents of migrant receiving places lack national citizenship and are thus deprived of effective sociopolitical inclusion, representation, and participation in the localities where they have moved to for work, refuge or retirement. This disjuncture bet…
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
Pakistani immigrant organisational spaces in Toronto and New York City
This study examines how ‘contexts of reception’ in two migrant cities shape the organisational infrastructure for Pakistani immigrant communities in Toronto and New York City (NYC). Previous research is divided into two epistemic camps, one focusing on locally oriented organisations promoting settlement/incorporation and the other on transnational organisations—thus obscuring the relationships between these organisations. The present study transc…
Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post‐Industrial Economies
Dominant scholarly and policy discourse implicitly connect growth in immigration to growth in the informal economy and negative socio‐economic outcomes in post‐industrial societies. In this introduction, we highlight some of the broader questions and implications raised by the multidisciplinary work of our contributors that challenge this immigration‐informality hypothesis. We argue that existing studies of the informal economy in post‐industrial…
The migration-development nexus and the changing role of transnational immigrant organizations
The State and the Grassroots presents the results of studies of immigrant organizations engaged in transnational development initiatives from thirteen different immigrant nationalities in five countries of reception. The scale of this endeavour is unprecedented. The articles represent the fruit of a long-term project known as the Comparative Immigration Organizations Project (CIOP), which was launched by the Center for Migration and Development a…
Aspectos económicos del vivir transnacional
The economic relations of migrants with their home countries have been the object of significant, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary research. However, the majority of studies have been concerned primarily with the north-south flow of economic remittances that migrants send to their places of origin. This article, making use of a transnational perspective informed by the principles of economic sociology, argues that the north-south focus on mon…
Paid domestic work, globalization, and informality
This paper examines the local demand for, and the level of informality of, domestic help in the Sacramento metropolitan area of California. It departs from the prevalent analytical approach that looks at domestic work from the supply side (i.e., the workers' perspective), and instead examines it from the demand side (i.e., the employers' perspective). Using a quantitative analytical strategy, it looks at the employer–employee relationship as embe…
Empresarios transnacionales: Una Forma Alternativa De Adaptación Económica De Los Inmigrantes
No abstract available. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 57, No. 648, 2002: 879-900
Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society
At the dawn of the 1990s, Dominicans are one of the fastest-growing and most conspicuous immigrant groups in the United States. In contrast to the prevailing conception of migrants as forming a stream of people, this article explores the U.S.-linked Dominican migration as a distinct social group, clearly distinguishable from its nonmigrant conationals and functioning in a transnational milieu. The article examines the group's own socioeconomic, c…
The Emergence of a Transnational Social Formation and The Mirage of Return Migration Among Dominican Transmigrants
Using a transnational perspective, this article analyzes the soriocul‐tural and political transformation of US‐Dominican transmigrants who have relocated to the Dominican Republic as one step in their transnational journey. Transmigrants and their society of origin have forged a dense web of transnational relations that unites them in a continuous transterritorial social formation. This formation is evident in the incessant back and forth traveli…
Transnational migration: A view from Colombia
This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Cali and Pereira. The project identified a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. These relations are heterogeneous and differentiated; what some scholars refer to as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regional…
Mistrust, fragmented solidarity, and transnational migration: Colombians in New York City and Los Angeles
This article compares the transnational economic, political, and sociocultural relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. The vast majority of these migrants are middle class and originally from large urban areas, which differs from the typical rural-origin migrants previously studied by transnational scholars. The analysis is based on theoretical developments from transnational studies and insights …
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation
The recent literature on immigrant transnationalism points to an alternative form of economic adaptation of foreign minorities in advanced societies that is based on the mobilization of their cross-country social networks. Case studies have noted the phenomenon's potential significance for immigrant integration into receiving countries and for the economic development in countries of origin. Despite their suggestive character, these studies consi…
Empresarios transnacionales: Una Forma Alternativa De Adaptación Económica De Los Inmigrantes
No abstract available. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 57, No. 648, 2002: 879-900
The Economics of Transnational Living
Migrants' long-distance economic relations with their homelands have been the subject of an extensive, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary inquiry. Most existing studies have been primarily concerned with the north-south flow of monetary remittances that migrants send to their homelands. Using a transnational perspective informed by economic sociology tenets, this article argues that this north-south, monetary-centered approach is too limited, f…
Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants
This article presents evidence of the scale, relative intensity, and social determinants of immigrants’ transnational political engagement. It demonstrates that a stable and significant transnational field of political action connecting immigrants with their polities of origin does indeed exist. The results help temper celebratory images of the extent and effects of transnational engagement provided by some scholars. The article shows that migran…
Aspectos económicos del vivir transnacional
The economic relations of migrants with their home countries have been the object of significant, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary research. However, the majority of studies have been concerned primarily with the north-south flow of economic remittances that migrants send to their places of origin. This article, making use of a transnational perspective informed by the principles of economic sociology, argues that the north-south focus on mon…
Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship
Global migration has reached historic levels affecting every single country in the world. One of the most significant effects of this heightened mobility has been that a growing proportion of the residents of migrant receiving places lack national citizenship and are thus deprived of effective sociopolitical inclusion, representation, and participation in the localities where they have moved to for work, refuge or retirement. This disjuncture bet…
Pakistani immigrant organisational spaces in Toronto and New York City
This study examines how ‘contexts of reception’ in two migrant cities shape the organisational infrastructure for Pakistani immigrant communities in Toronto and New York City (NYC). Previous research is divided into two epistemic camps, one focusing on locally oriented organisations promoting settlement/incorporation and the other on transnational organisations—thus obscuring the relationships between these organisations. The present study transc…
Transnationalism From Below: Comparative Urban & Community Research
Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourses on transnationalism. A core theme in this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the info…
Paid domestic work, globalization, and informality
This paper examines the local demand for, and the level of informality of, domestic help in the Sacramento metropolitan area of California. It departs from the prevalent analytical approach that looks at domestic work from the supply side (i.e., the workers' perspective), and instead examines it from the demand side (i.e., the employers' perspective). Using a quantitative analytical strategy, it looks at the employer–employee relationship as embe…
Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post‐Industrial Economies
Dominant scholarly and policy discourse implicitly connect growth in immigration to growth in the informal economy and negative socio‐economic outcomes in post‐industrial societies. In this introduction, we highlight some of the broader questions and implications raised by the multidisciplinary work of our contributors that challenge this immigration‐informality hypothesis. We argue that existing studies of the informal economy in post‐industrial…
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
The migration-development nexus and the changing role of transnational immigrant organizations
The State and the Grassroots presents the results of studies of immigrant organizations engaged in transnational development initiatives from thirteen different immigrant nationalities in five countries of reception. The scale of this endeavour is unprecedented. The articles represent the fruit of a long-term project known as the Comparative Immigration Organizations Project (CIOP), which was launched by the Center for Migration and Development a…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (12 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works)