My paper "Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras" is out in Electoral Studies doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

CFP: Special Issue of The Forum on “New Questions and Research in U.S. Immigration Politics.” We seek papers on recent developments in immigration policy and politics at the local and national levels and their implications for future elections. Due Sept. 1, 2026.

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Objective This journal provides a forum for professionally informed commentary on issues affecting contemporary American politics. This includes but is not limited to issues engaging parties, election...

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Really excited this paper is finally published! Can’t help but to think about the recent vote from US Colombians in the 2026 Colombian presidential election with De La Espriella receiving 72% and Cepeda 15% of support among US Colombians. 🇨🇴

Published! In this paper, we evaluate how criminal violence in Latin America affects political attitudes among Latinos in the United States. @angelaxocampo.bsky.social and I bring together research from different fields to show the relevance of origin-country politics in Latino public opinion.

Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America - Comparative Migration Studies

Immigrants and the children of immigrants routinely receive information about the politics of both their country of origin and country of residence. While existing research emphasizes how diasporas ab...

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Our paper on U.S. Latinos and Latin American politics, co-authored with @angelaxocampo.bsky.social , has been accepted at CMS! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America - Comparative Migration Studies

Immigrants and the children of immigrants routinely receive information about the politics of both their country of origin and country of residence. While existing research emphasizes how diasporas ab...

link.springer.com

Excited to share that our paper on emigration and protest, co-authored with @fcastrog.bsky.social, has been accepted at JOP.

Francisca Castro@fcastrog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 . You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...

My colleague Cova Meseguer (ICADE) and I really like this paper published a little over a year ago in Global Networks. Cova thinks we were ahead of our time 💡— the paper examines #deportations to #LatinAmerica and #publicopinion toward the U.S. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Forced returns fuel anti‐Americanism: Evidence from U.S. deportations to Latin America

In the last two decades, forced removals have been the main feature of U.S. migration policy toward Latin America. In this research, we explore whether this policy has had implications in terms of La...

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Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling

Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of crim...

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Backed by a roster of major financiers, El Salvador is making major spending cuts. The IMF reports the private pension fund could dry up in August 2027, yet the government missed the deadline to propose a reform after withholding almost $2 billion. beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

Bukele’s Economic Formula: With IMF Backing, Court New Debt to Pay Back the Old

Backed by a roster of major financiers, El Salvador is making big spending cuts. The IMF reports the private pension fund could dry up in August 2027, yet the government missed the deadline to…

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I learned a lot from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social visit to the University of Denver and our dinner at Casa Bonita. I witnessed that genie saying those words.

Col. Gustavo Arellano@gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 11mo ago

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: In the world of 'South Park,' Mexicans are cool while ICE is the joke. Share, porfas!

Out today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Emigration from closed autocracies is often thought to serve as a safety valve and improve stability. I show that it can also backfire and create more demand for emigration, thus raising popular pressure on the regime. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

My paper on the effect of emigration on presidential approval in El Salvador is out on RLOP. I want to give thanks to Óscar Picardo and El Centro de Estudios Ciudadanos.

It's an honor to receive the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Mentoring. I am grateful to the mentors who have shaped me and to my students for their support. #APSA2024

I hope this is the last app of this kind that I download/install