Michael Ahn Paarlberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 811124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ahn Paarlberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Ahn |
| FAMILY NAME | Paarlberg |
| SIGNATURE | PAARLBERG M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2594-6807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Sanctuary Scale: Measuring Immigrant Protections in Cities of Refuge
Researchers broadly define sanctuary cities as localities with policies that limit local cooperation or participation in federal immigration enforcement, but this is often a binary definition. Existing scholarship has examined the roles that sanctuary cities play in limiting cooperation in federal immigration enforcement but has tended to rely on an inconsistent definition of what constitutes a ‘sanctuary city’. Much of the existing research also…
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship
Despite the increased scholarship on sanctuary localities in the United States, there is little research analyzing the factors that lead to the adoption of sanctuary resolutions at the municipal level. Drawing on a new dataset of sanctuary and nonsanctuary cities, we theorize that policy adoption is driven primarily by two factors and their interaction: the size of the foreign-born population and local partisanship. We examine cities that passed …
Hometown Associations and Parties as Vehicles for Mexican Electoral Campaigns in the US
Despite accounting for a tenth of Mexico's population, the Mexican diaspora has relatively little impact in Mexican elections, with single digit voter turnout and legal restrictions to campaigning. Outreach by Mexican parties is limited and ad hoc in nature, failing to build permanent diaspora party networks. Instead, Hometown Associations (HTAs) are the primary vehicle for migrant political engagement. This paper examines the relationship of Mex…
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: A conceptual framework
Policy responses to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) within migrant receiving countries often conflate all organizations which conduct illegal activity in multiple countries based on the mafia or cartel model. This model imagines the TCO to be the most evolved form of organized crime: deeply institutionalized, well resourced, hierarchically structured, highly profitable, and diversified in their criminal activities. Such a model inform…
Competing for the diaspora's influence at home: Party structure and transnational campaign activity in El Salvador
How do parties in migrant-sending countries engage with the diaspora? Migrants exercise an increasingly important voice in electoral politics in their home countries, though they often either cannot legally vote or vote in very low numbers, yet parties attempt to leverage the influence they believe migrants have over voters at home. However the degree and manner by which parties reach out to diaspora citizens varies widely. A case study of El Sal…
Transnational Militancy: Diaspora Influence over Electoral Activity in Latin America
Transnational Militancy: Diaspora Influence over Electoral Activity in Latin America
Competing for the diaspora's influence at home: Party structure and transnational campaign activity in El Salvador
How do parties in migrant-sending countries engage with the diaspora? Migrants exercise an increasingly important voice in electoral politics in their home countries, though they often either cannot legally vote or vote in very low numbers, yet parties attempt to leverage the influence they believe migrants have over voters at home. However the degree and manner by which parties reach out to diaspora citizens varies widely. A case study of El Sal…
Hometown Associations and Parties as Vehicles for Mexican Electoral Campaigns in the US
Despite accounting for a tenth of Mexico's population, the Mexican diaspora has relatively little impact in Mexican elections, with single digit voter turnout and legal restrictions to campaigning. Outreach by Mexican parties is limited and ad hoc in nature, failing to build permanent diaspora party networks. Instead, Hometown Associations (HTAs) are the primary vehicle for migrant political engagement. This paper examines the relationship of Mex…
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship
Despite the increased scholarship on sanctuary localities in the United States, there is little research analyzing the factors that lead to the adoption of sanctuary resolutions at the municipal level. Drawing on a new dataset of sanctuary and nonsanctuary cities, we theorize that policy adoption is driven primarily by two factors and their interaction: the size of the foreign-born population and local partisanship. We examine cities that passed …
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: A conceptual framework
Policy responses to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) within migrant receiving countries often conflate all organizations which conduct illegal activity in multiple countries based on the mafia or cartel model. This model imagines the TCO to be the most evolved form of organized crime: deeply institutionalized, well resourced, hierarchically structured, highly profitable, and diversified in their criminal activities. Such a model inform…
Transnational Militancy: Diaspora Influence over Electoral Activity in Latin America
Competing for the diaspora's influence at home: Party structure and transnational campaign activity in El Salvador
How do parties in migrant-sending countries engage with the diaspora? Migrants exercise an increasingly important voice in electoral politics in their home countries, though they often either cannot legally vote or vote in very low numbers, yet parties attempt to leverage the influence they believe migrants have over voters at home. However the degree and manner by which parties reach out to diaspora citizens varies widely. A case study of El Sal…
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: A conceptual framework
Policy responses to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) within migrant receiving countries often conflate all organizations which conduct illegal activity in multiple countries based on the mafia or cartel model. This model imagines the TCO to be the most evolved form of organized crime: deeply institutionalized, well resourced, hierarchically structured, highly profitable, and diversified in their criminal activities. Such a model inform…
Hometown Associations and Parties as Vehicles for Mexican Electoral Campaigns in the US
Despite accounting for a tenth of Mexico's population, the Mexican diaspora has relatively little impact in Mexican elections, with single digit voter turnout and legal restrictions to campaigning. Outreach by Mexican parties is limited and ad hoc in nature, failing to build permanent diaspora party networks. Instead, Hometown Associations (HTAs) are the primary vehicle for migrant political engagement. This paper examines the relationship of Mex…
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship
Despite the increased scholarship on sanctuary localities in the United States, there is little research analyzing the factors that lead to the adoption of sanctuary resolutions at the municipal level. Drawing on a new dataset of sanctuary and nonsanctuary cities, we theorize that policy adoption is driven primarily by two factors and their interaction: the size of the foreign-born population and local partisanship. We examine cities that passed …
The Sanctuary Scale: Measuring Immigrant Protections in Cities of Refuge
Researchers broadly define sanctuary cities as localities with policies that limit local cooperation or participation in federal immigration enforcement, but this is often a binary definition. Existing scholarship has examined the roles that sanctuary cities play in limiting cooperation in federal immigration enforcement but has tended to rely on an inconsistent definition of what constitutes a ‘sanctuary city’. Much of the existing research also…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Criminology (2 works)