Diego F Leal
Biographic Data
| ID | 201395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego F Leal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego F |
| FAMILY NAME | Leal |
| SIGNATURE | LEAL D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9973-4626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries
Although the literature on cultural holes has expanded considerably in recent years, there is no concrete measure in that literature to locate cultural holes brokers. This article develops a conceptual framework grounded in social network theory and cultural sociology to propose a specific solution to fill this measurement gap. Agent-based computational experiments are leveraged to develop a theoretical test of the analytic purchase and distincti…
Enforced Disappearance as a Border Management Tool: The Case of Border Patrol Detentions of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States
Executive Summary This study examines the experiences of international migrants and asylum-seeker families recently released from the custody of the United States Border Patrol (BP) to assess their ability to make phone calls while in BP detention. The focus on phone access is critical to determining whether respondents experience enforced disappearance under international law, given that BP custody is usually incommunicado. To determine whether …
Migration networks and the intensity of global migration flows, 1990-2015
Evidence from 184 countries over a 25-year span is used to analyze international migration flows based on their ‘intensity’ or size. Results show that network dynamics are relevant to understand the emergence and evolution of migration flows of varying intensity. The findings also show that a core set of non-network covariates derived from Migration Systems Theory is important to understand migration flows of different intensity. Overall, the res…
Reprint of: What is(n't) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
Network Inequalities and International Migration in the Americas
Based on predictions derived from migration systems theory, this study argues that chain-like international migratory exchanges tend to be organized as transitive structures patterned along an intelligible hierarchy of attractiveness between countries. To test this idea, harmonized bilateral migrant stock data are used to estimate country-to-country migration flows in the Americas in the second half of the 20th century. Then, temporal exponential…
Mass Transit Shutdowns as a Tactical Innovation in Bogotá, Colombia
In a context of debilitated formal political institutions, a period of high levels of collective contention, and a protest culture in which road blockades are commonly used, this article argues that the implementation of a novel easy-to-block bus-based mass transit system, Transmilenio (TM), changed the repertoire of contention in Bogotá. To support this argument, panel data that register all protest events that took place in Bogotá between 2001 …
Is having an educationally diverse social network good for health
While network research often focuses on social integration as a predictor of health, a less-explored idea is that connections to dissimilar others may benefit well-being. As such, this study investigates whether network diversity is associated with changes in four health outcomes over a 3-year period of time in the U.S.A. Specifically, we focus on how an underexplored measure of network diversity—educational attainment assortativity—is associated…
Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s
The authors estimate migration flows of women in the 1990s at a global scale and provide a description of these migratory movements. The authors produce these data combining the 2011 World Bank Global Migrant Stock Database and state-of-the-art techniques to estimate migratory flows from stock data. The authors examine these flows in light of the global demand for care workers in the 1990s, showing that migration flows of women in that decade map…
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Gender and Reproductive Labor Migration in Asia, 1960–2000
Studies on gender and migration have focused on how and why men and women migrate. While women often migrate for family reunification, they increasingly do so for their own work and economic opportunities. Studies on women’s migration flows are rare; those that exist neglect increasingly prominent migration dynamics within Global South. Addressing this gap, we map understudied women’s migration flows within Asian sub-regions from 1960–2000. Build…
Migración, codesarrollo y capital social. Lineamientos para una estrategia de integración de dos mundos
The present article attempts to relate three main concepts: migration, codevelopment and social capital, using analytical frameworks of political science and sociology. Those concepts enable the construction of theoretical principles for a strategy, based on empirical evidence, intended for linking the worlds within which migrants live and develop themselves and their societies
Well-being, social capital and international migration. The case of the Latin American and Andean Spain
This paper attempts to introduce the concept of Latin American and Andean Spain. In order to do this the author collects data about the massive migration between Latin America and the Andean region to Spain. Then, two theoretical perspectives are proposed as an explanation of this phenomenon: push and pull theory, linked to the concept of well-being, and social capital theory associated with the concept of migration network. In third place, it is…
Network Inequalities and International Migration in the Americas
Based on predictions derived from migration systems theory, this study argues that chain-like international migratory exchanges tend to be organized as transitive structures patterned along an intelligible hierarchy of attractiveness between countries. To test this idea, harmonized bilateral migrant stock data are used to estimate country-to-country migration flows in the Americas in the second half of the 20th century. Then, temporal exponential…
Gender and Reproductive Labor Migration in Asia, 1960–2000
Studies on gender and migration have focused on how and why men and women migrate. While women often migrate for family reunification, they increasingly do so for their own work and economic opportunities. Studies on women’s migration flows are rare; those that exist neglect increasingly prominent migration dynamics within Global South. Addressing this gap, we map understudied women’s migration flows within Asian sub-regions from 1960–2000. Build…
Migration networks and the intensity of global migration flows, 1990-2015
Evidence from 184 countries over a 25-year span is used to analyze international migration flows based on their ‘intensity’ or size. Results show that network dynamics are relevant to understand the emergence and evolution of migration flows of varying intensity. The findings also show that a core set of non-network covariates derived from Migration Systems Theory is important to understand migration flows of different intensity. Overall, the res…
Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s
The authors estimate migration flows of women in the 1990s at a global scale and provide a description of these migratory movements. The authors produce these data combining the 2011 World Bank Global Migrant Stock Database and state-of-the-art techniques to estimate migratory flows from stock data. The authors examine these flows in light of the global demand for care workers in the 1990s, showing that migration flows of women in that decade map…
Reprint of: What is(n't) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
Mass Transit Shutdowns as a Tactical Innovation in Bogotá, Colombia
In a context of debilitated formal political institutions, a period of high levels of collective contention, and a protest culture in which road blockades are commonly used, this article argues that the implementation of a novel easy-to-block bus-based mass transit system, Transmilenio (TM), changed the repertoire of contention in Bogotá. To support this argument, panel data that register all protest events that took place in Bogotá between 2001 …
Is having an educationally diverse social network good for health
While network research often focuses on social integration as a predictor of health, a less-explored idea is that connections to dissimilar others may benefit well-being. As such, this study investigates whether network diversity is associated with changes in four health outcomes over a 3-year period of time in the U.S.A. Specifically, we focus on how an underexplored measure of network diversity—educational attainment assortativity—is associated…
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Well-being, social capital and international migration. The case of the Latin American and Andean Spain
This paper attempts to introduce the concept of Latin American and Andean Spain. In order to do this the author collects data about the massive migration between Latin America and the Andean region to Spain. Then, two theoretical perspectives are proposed as an explanation of this phenomenon: push and pull theory, linked to the concept of well-being, and social capital theory associated with the concept of migration network. In third place, it is…
Migración, codesarrollo y capital social. Lineamientos para una estrategia de integración de dos mundos
The present article attempts to relate three main concepts: migration, codevelopment and social capital, using analytical frameworks of political science and sociology. Those concepts enable the construction of theoretical principles for a strategy, based on empirical evidence, intended for linking the worlds within which migrants live and develop themselves and their societies
Gender and Reproductive Labor Migration in Asia, 1960–2000
Studies on gender and migration have focused on how and why men and women migrate. While women often migrate for family reunification, they increasingly do so for their own work and economic opportunities. Studies on women’s migration flows are rare; those that exist neglect increasingly prominent migration dynamics within Global South. Addressing this gap, we map understudied women’s migration flows within Asian sub-regions from 1960–2000. Build…
Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s
The authors estimate migration flows of women in the 1990s at a global scale and provide a description of these migratory movements. The authors produce these data combining the 2011 World Bank Global Migrant Stock Database and state-of-the-art techniques to estimate migratory flows from stock data. The authors examine these flows in light of the global demand for care workers in the 1990s, showing that migration flows of women in that decade map…
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Mass Transit Shutdowns as a Tactical Innovation in Bogotá, Colombia
In a context of debilitated formal political institutions, a period of high levels of collective contention, and a protest culture in which road blockades are commonly used, this article argues that the implementation of a novel easy-to-block bus-based mass transit system, Transmilenio (TM), changed the repertoire of contention in Bogotá. To support this argument, panel data that register all protest events that took place in Bogotá between 2001 …
Is having an educationally diverse social network good for health
While network research often focuses on social integration as a predictor of health, a less-explored idea is that connections to dissimilar others may benefit well-being. As such, this study investigates whether network diversity is associated with changes in four health outcomes over a 3-year period of time in the U.S.A. Specifically, we focus on how an underexplored measure of network diversity—educational attainment assortativity—is associated…
What is(n’t) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
Network Inequalities and International Migration in the Americas
Based on predictions derived from migration systems theory, this study argues that chain-like international migratory exchanges tend to be organized as transitive structures patterned along an intelligible hierarchy of attractiveness between countries. To test this idea, harmonized bilateral migrant stock data are used to estimate country-to-country migration flows in the Americas in the second half of the 20th century. Then, temporal exponential…
Reprint of: What is(n't) a friend? Dimensions of the friendship concept among adolescents
Migration networks and the intensity of global migration flows, 1990-2015
Evidence from 184 countries over a 25-year span is used to analyze international migration flows based on their ‘intensity’ or size. Results show that network dynamics are relevant to understand the emergence and evolution of migration flows of varying intensity. The findings also show that a core set of non-network covariates derived from Migration Systems Theory is important to understand migration flows of different intensity. Overall, the res…
Enforced Disappearance as a Border Management Tool: The Case of Border Patrol Detentions of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States
Executive Summary This study examines the experiences of international migrants and asylum-seeker families recently released from the custody of the United States Border Patrol (BP) to assess their ability to make phone calls while in BP detention. The focus on phone access is critical to determining whether respondents experience enforced disappearance under international law, given that BP custody is usually incommunicado. To determine whether …
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries
Although the literature on cultural holes has expanded considerably in recent years, there is no concrete measure in that literature to locate cultural holes brokers. This article develops a conceptual framework grounded in social network theory and cultural sociology to propose a specific solution to fill this measurement gap. Agent-based computational experiments are leveraged to develop a theoretical test of the analytic purchase and distincti…
Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Capital and Networks (4 works)