Cristina Escobar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Escobar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Escobar |
| SIGNATURE | ESCOBAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1418-2955 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Singlehood, stigma and emotional well-being among professional women in Bogotá, Colombia
Singlehood among professional women remains under-researched in Latin America, where gender norms and family expectations are shaped by distinct sociocultural contexts. This study examines how single professional women aged 30 to 55 in Bogotá, Colombia, experience and make sense of being single. Using a phenomenological and interpretive approach, we conducted three focus groups (n = 13) and combined deductive and inductive thematic analysis. Sing…
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad
Although a large number of democracies have extended political rights to expatriates, relatively little is known about the depths of transnational political engagement. How attentive are expatriates to politics in the country of origin? When expatriates judge leaders “back home,” are their evaluations based on the same ideological considerations as those of citizens in the country of origin? Drawing from original surveys conducted during presiden…
Studies of Migration, Violence and Transnational Relations in the Latin America–U.S. Circuit
Violence-produced migration in combination with or in addition to migration that results from economic distress—in some cases the result of violence itself—is at the core of three recent studies of Latin American–US migration. All three studies adopt a transnational/transregional/translocal perspective. Although this is not by any means a new approach—the work by P. Levitt, The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001) on Dominicans or D. Kyle Tra…
Immigrant enfranchisement in Latin America
In order to explain non-citizen enfranchisement in Latin America, this article takes into account three dimensions: domestic (citizenship tradition, immigration levels, internal politics), global (international and bilateral agreements, human rights discourse) and regional (common markets, diffusion, geopolitics). The article identifies two main modalities: from the early twentieth century to the 1980s, when democracy was not a necessary conditio…
Assessing Candidates at Home and Abroad
This article examines candidate favorability among Colombian expatriates and Colombians in the home country in the 2010 Colombian presidential elections. It analyzes the influence of several socioeconomic, migratory, mobilizing, and contextual factors on candidate appraisal using a large exit poll conducted at Colombian consulates in five cities in the United States and Europe and five cities with high emigration rates in Colombia. Aside from dif…
Assessing the impact of a Christmas advertisement campaign on Catalan wine preference using Choice Experiments
Exploring Transnational Civil Society
The study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the USA shows that variations by nationality are not only the result of differences in the demographic characteristics of the immigrant populations. Immigrant organizations are immersed simultaneously in two civil society/state dynamics: that of the sending country and that of the receiving country, and both shape immigrant organizations. I argue that the patterns of civic a…
La contribution des organisations de migrants latino-américains des États-Unis au développement de leurs pays d'origine
The comparative study of immigrant organizations in the United States and their contributions to their countries of origin (Columbia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico) reveals differences between the three nationalities in respect both to the nature of their projects and their home country partners. These differences are explained by the sociology of the immigrant populations as well as by the respective states’ structures and policies vis-à-vis…
Divided or Convergent Loyalties
This article describes findings from three successive empirical studies that examine the determinants of participation in transnational organizations by Latin immigrants in the United States, the character of the membership and activities of these organizations, and their bearing on the political incorporation of their respective communities. Results from these studies reveal that older, better-educated, and higher-status migrants are most likely…
Citizenship Across Borders
Bridging the gap
This study was prompted by concerns about the ways in which immigrant organizations, especially those of a transnational character, may retard or prevent political integration among recent migrants to the United States. For this purpose, we constructed an inventory of all organizations created by Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrants in the United States, interviewed leaders of the twenty largest organizations from each group in person, and…
Extraterritorial Political Rights and Dual Citizenship in Latin America
There is variation among the Latin American sending countries in the timing, sequence, and form by which they have approved retention-of-nationality laws (dual-citizenship laws) and have extended political rights to their migrants abroad. This variation is the product not only of the characteristics of the migration in each country but also of the specificity of their political and electoral systems and of the historical relationship between the …
Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development
This article explores how ninety Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican transnational immigrant organizations pursue philanthropic projects that aid in the development of their country or community of origin. We find that each nationality's context of exit and reception affects the origin, strength, and character of their organizations. We produce “maps” of the interaction of transnational organizations with each country of origin and conduct multivar…
Forthcoming in Volume 42 Number 3
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
La Sierra. Directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. Brooklyn, NY
Reviewed by: La Sierra Cristina Escobar La Sierra. Directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. 84 minutes. VHS. $440.00 purchase; $125.00 rental. Understanding Colombian contemporary conflict is not easy. A half-century old civil war, whose protagonists have changed over time and whose causes are multiple (rapid industrialization and deep inequality, a state that historically has never really conso…
Migration and Citizen Rights
This article analyzes Mexican migration to the United States (US), as part of the South to North global migration, and focuses on the access of migrants to citizen rights from the perspective of the sending countries. Studies of citizenship and migration have mostly looked at receiving countries' policies; however, sending countries are also enacting laws that facilitate immigrants' access to rights. The study shows that the restriction of immigr…
Dual Citizenship and Political Participation
Clientelism and Citizenship
Political reality in Latin America raises important questions about the prerequisites for democratic citizenship. Popular movements often fail to take advantage of institutional openings and encounter obstacles in transforming their mobilizing power into institutional political power. An analysis of political participation in the Colombian department of Sucre shows that the clientelism that is so widespread in Latin American democracies inhibits …
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Democracy, Clientelism, and Civil Society
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development
This article explores how ninety Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican transnational immigrant organizations pursue philanthropic projects that aid in the development of their country or community of origin. We find that each nationality's context of exit and reception affects the origin, strength, and character of their organizations. We produce “maps” of the interaction of transnational organizations with each country of origin and conduct multivar…
Bridging the gap
This study was prompted by concerns about the ways in which immigrant organizations, especially those of a transnational character, may retard or prevent political integration among recent migrants to the United States. For this purpose, we constructed an inventory of all organizations created by Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrants in the United States, interviewed leaders of the twenty largest organizations from each group in person, and…
Immigrant enfranchisement in Latin America
In order to explain non-citizen enfranchisement in Latin America, this article takes into account three dimensions: domestic (citizenship tradition, immigration levels, internal politics), global (international and bilateral agreements, human rights discourse) and regional (common markets, diffusion, geopolitics). The article identifies two main modalities: from the early twentieth century to the 1980s, when democracy was not a necessary conditio…
Dual Citizenship and Political Participation
Divided or Convergent Loyalties
This article describes findings from three successive empirical studies that examine the determinants of participation in transnational organizations by Latin immigrants in the United States, the character of the membership and activities of these organizations, and their bearing on the political incorporation of their respective communities. Results from these studies reveal that older, better-educated, and higher-status migrants are most likely…
Clientelism and Citizenship
Political reality in Latin America raises important questions about the prerequisites for democratic citizenship. Popular movements often fail to take advantage of institutional openings and encounter obstacles in transforming their mobilizing power into institutional political power. An analysis of political participation in the Colombian department of Sucre shows that the clientelism that is so widespread in Latin American democracies inhibits …
Migration and Citizen Rights
This article analyzes Mexican migration to the United States (US), as part of the South to North global migration, and focuses on the access of migrants to citizen rights from the perspective of the sending countries. Studies of citizenship and migration have mostly looked at receiving countries' policies; however, sending countries are also enacting laws that facilitate immigrants' access to rights. The study shows that the restriction of immigr…
Assessing Candidates at Home and Abroad
This article examines candidate favorability among Colombian expatriates and Colombians in the home country in the 2010 Colombian presidential elections. It analyzes the influence of several socioeconomic, migratory, mobilizing, and contextual factors on candidate appraisal using a large exit poll conducted at Colombian consulates in five cities in the United States and Europe and five cities with high emigration rates in Colombia. Aside from dif…
Exploring Transnational Civil Society
The study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the USA shows that variations by nationality are not only the result of differences in the demographic characteristics of the immigrant populations. Immigrant organizations are immersed simultaneously in two civil society/state dynamics: that of the sending country and that of the receiving country, and both shape immigrant organizations. I argue that the patterns of civic a…
Assessing the impact of a Christmas advertisement campaign on Catalan wine preference using Choice Experiments
La contribution des organisations de migrants latino-américains des États-Unis au développement de leurs pays d'origine
The comparative study of immigrant organizations in the United States and their contributions to their countries of origin (Columbia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico) reveals differences between the three nationalities in respect both to the nature of their projects and their home country partners. These differences are explained by the sociology of the immigrant populations as well as by the respective states’ structures and policies vis-à-vis…
Democracy, Clientelism, and Civil Society
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Clientelism and Citizenship
Political reality in Latin America raises important questions about the prerequisites for democratic citizenship. Popular movements often fail to take advantage of institutional openings and encounter obstacles in transforming their mobilizing power into institutional political power. An analysis of political participation in the Colombian department of Sucre shows that the clientelism that is so widespread in Latin American democracies inhibits …
Dual Citizenship and Political Participation
Migration and Citizen Rights
This article analyzes Mexican migration to the United States (US), as part of the South to North global migration, and focuses on the access of migrants to citizen rights from the perspective of the sending countries. Studies of citizenship and migration have mostly looked at receiving countries' policies; however, sending countries are also enacting laws that facilitate immigrants' access to rights. The study shows that the restriction of immigr…
Extraterritorial Political Rights and Dual Citizenship in Latin America
There is variation among the Latin American sending countries in the timing, sequence, and form by which they have approved retention-of-nationality laws (dual-citizenship laws) and have extended political rights to their migrants abroad. This variation is the product not only of the characteristics of the migration in each country but also of the specificity of their political and electoral systems and of the historical relationship between the …
Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development
This article explores how ninety Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican transnational immigrant organizations pursue philanthropic projects that aid in the development of their country or community of origin. We find that each nationality's context of exit and reception affects the origin, strength, and character of their organizations. We produce “maps” of the interaction of transnational organizations with each country of origin and conduct multivar…
Forthcoming in Volume 42 Number 3
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
La Sierra. Directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. Brooklyn, NY
Reviewed by: La Sierra Cristina Escobar La Sierra. Directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. 84 minutes. VHS. $440.00 purchase; $125.00 rental. Understanding Colombian contemporary conflict is not easy. A half-century old civil war, whose protagonists have changed over time and whose causes are multiple (rapid industrialization and deep inequality, a state that historically has never really conso…
Bridging the gap
This study was prompted by concerns about the ways in which immigrant organizations, especially those of a transnational character, may retard or prevent political integration among recent migrants to the United States. For this purpose, we constructed an inventory of all organizations created by Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrants in the United States, interviewed leaders of the twenty largest organizations from each group in person, and…
Divided or Convergent Loyalties
This article describes findings from three successive empirical studies that examine the determinants of participation in transnational organizations by Latin immigrants in the United States, the character of the membership and activities of these organizations, and their bearing on the political incorporation of their respective communities. Results from these studies reveal that older, better-educated, and higher-status migrants are most likely…
Citizenship Across Borders
Exploring Transnational Civil Society
The study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the USA shows that variations by nationality are not only the result of differences in the demographic characteristics of the immigrant populations. Immigrant organizations are immersed simultaneously in two civil society/state dynamics: that of the sending country and that of the receiving country, and both shape immigrant organizations. I argue that the patterns of civic a…
La contribution des organisations de migrants latino-américains des États-Unis au développement de leurs pays d'origine
The comparative study of immigrant organizations in the United States and their contributions to their countries of origin (Columbia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico) reveals differences between the three nationalities in respect both to the nature of their projects and their home country partners. These differences are explained by the sociology of the immigrant populations as well as by the respective states’ structures and policies vis-à-vis…
Assessing the impact of a Christmas advertisement campaign on Catalan wine preference using Choice Experiments
Assessing Candidates at Home and Abroad
This article examines candidate favorability among Colombian expatriates and Colombians in the home country in the 2010 Colombian presidential elections. It analyzes the influence of several socioeconomic, migratory, mobilizing, and contextual factors on candidate appraisal using a large exit poll conducted at Colombian consulates in five cities in the United States and Europe and five cities with high emigration rates in Colombia. Aside from dif…
Immigrant enfranchisement in Latin America
In order to explain non-citizen enfranchisement in Latin America, this article takes into account three dimensions: domestic (citizenship tradition, immigration levels, internal politics), global (international and bilateral agreements, human rights discourse) and regional (common markets, diffusion, geopolitics). The article identifies two main modalities: from the early twentieth century to the 1980s, when democracy was not a necessary conditio…
Studies of Migration, Violence and Transnational Relations in the Latin America–U.S. Circuit
Violence-produced migration in combination with or in addition to migration that results from economic distress—in some cases the result of violence itself—is at the core of three recent studies of Latin American–US migration. All three studies adopt a transnational/transregional/translocal perspective. Although this is not by any means a new approach—the work by P. Levitt, The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001) on Dominicans or D. Kyle Tra…
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad
Although a large number of democracies have extended political rights to expatriates, relatively little is known about the depths of transnational political engagement. How attentive are expatriates to politics in the country of origin? When expatriates judge leaders “back home,” are their evaluations based on the same ideological considerations as those of citizens in the country of origin? Drawing from original surveys conducted during presiden…
Singlehood, stigma and emotional well-being among professional women in Bogotá, Colombia
Singlehood among professional women remains under-researched in Latin America, where gender norms and family expectations are shaped by distinct sociocultural contexts. This study examines how single professional women aged 30 to 55 in Bogotá, Colombia, experience and make sense of being single. Using a phenomenological and interpretive approach, we conducted three focus groups (n = 13) and combined deductive and inductive thematic analysis. Sing…
Political science (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Citizenship (10 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works)