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Education

Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1998.

B.A. in Anthropology: University of Los Andes; Bogotá, Colombia, 1982.

Areas of Interest

Political Sociology, International Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation, Social Movements, Development, Comparative Historical, Latin America/Latine Studies.

Position

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice RUC

Lecturer, Global Studies Program, Department of World Languages and Culture

Fellowships and Grants

PTL Professional Development Fund, Rutgers University-Camden (2021-2022)

Research grant, Department of Sociology. Temple University (2017-2018)

Presidential Authority Award grant (2008-2009). Russell Sage Foundation. Principal Investigator.

Research grant 2005-2006. Russell Sage Foundation. Co-Investigator (Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator).

Research grant 2004-2005. MacArthur Foundation. Co-investigator (Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator).

Postdoctoral research grant 2000-2001. International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council. Principal Investigator.

Postdoctoral fellowship 1999-2000.  Princeton University, Sawyer Seminar on sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and coordinated by the Program of Latin American Studies and the Office of Population Research.

Department of Sociology UCSD Dissertation Fellowship (Spring Quarter) 1993.

Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. UCSD Dissertation Grant 1991-1992.

Tinker Field Research Grant (Pre-Dissertation grants offered by the Tinker Foundation and CILAS) 1989.

Publications

Refereed Journals

McCann, James, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2019. “Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement”. Latin American Research Review, 54(1), pp. 16–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.191

Escobar, Cristina. 2015. “Immigrant enfranchisement in Latin America: From Strong Men to Universal Citizenship.” Democratization, Special volume Electoral Rights in the Age of Globalization. 22(5): 227-250.

Escobar, Cristina, Renelinda Arana and James McCann. 2015. “Expatriate Voting and Migrants’ Place of Residence: Explaining Transnational Participation in Colombian Elections”. Migration Studies 3(1):1-31. First published online        (January 8, 2014), doi: 10.1093/migration/mnt030.

Escobar, Cristina, James McCann and Renelinda Arana. 2014. “Transnational Participation in Colombian Elections: Assessing the Impact of Reception Site.” Latin American Politics and Society, 56(2) (Summer):115-140.

Escobar, Cristina. 2010. “Exploring Transnational Civil Society: A comparative study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the United  States.” Journal of Civil Society, 6(3) (December): 205-235.

Escobar, Cristina. 2010. “La contribution des organizations de migrants latino-américains des États-Unis au développement de leurs pays d’origine” Critique International, 46 (janvier-mars) 103-124.

Mark Melnik, Alvaro Lima, Amy Moran and Cristina Escobar. 2009. “Mediating Integration: Latino Immigrant Organizations in Greater Boston.” Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, 17(33): July-December 2009.

Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2009. “Divided or Convergent Loyalties? The Political Incorporation Process of Latin American Immigrants in the United States.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 50(2): 103- 136.

Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2008. “Bridging the Gap: Transnational and Ethnic Organizations in the Political Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States.” Racial and Ethnic Studies 31 (6):1056-1090.

Escobar, Cristina. 2007. “Dual Citizenship and Extraterritorial Political Rights in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review.  42 (3) (October): 41-73. Reprinted   (updated version) in Spanish in Pablo Mateos (ed.) Ciudadanía Múltiple y Migración: Perspectivas Latinoamericanas, pp. 230-271. CIDE / CIESAS: México D.F. (2015).

Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Alexandra Radford. 2007. “Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study.” International Migration Review. 41 (1) (Spring):242-281.

Escobar, Cristina. 2006. “Migration and Citizen Rights: The Mexican Case.” Citizenship Studies. 10 (5) (November): 503- 523. Reprinted in Spanish in El País Transnacional: Migración Mexicana y Cambio Social a través de la Frontera, eds. Marina Ariza and Alejandro Portes, Mexico D.F.: UNAM-Miguel Ángel Porrua.

Escobar, Cristina. 2004. “Dual Citizenship and Political Participation: Migrants in the interplay of American and Colombian politics.” Latino Studies. 2(1):45-69.

Escobar, Cristina. 2002. “Clientelism and Citizenship: The Limits of Political Reform in Sucre, Colombia.” Latin American Perspectives 29(5) (September): 20-47. Reprinted in Spanish Análisis Político 18(53): 3-21 (2005).

Rojas, Santigo, Cristina Escobar and Juan Guillermo Ferro. 1992. “La Visión de las Organizaciones Agrarias sobre la Coyuntura Nacional”. Cuadernos de Agroindustria 28. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: Bogotá.

Escobar, Cristina. 1983. “La ANUC y el Movimiento Campesino Durante los Años Setenta en Colombia” (ANUC and the Peasant Movement During the 1970s in Colombia). In Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos. Vol.6, No 3, Bogota.

Book Chapters

Escobar, Cristina. 2015. “Transnational philanthropy of urban migrants: Colombian and   Dominican Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development”. In Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Alejandro Portes eds. The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents. New York: Berghahn Books.

Escobar, Cristina. 2000. “Bullfighting Fiestas, Clientelism and Political Identity in Northern Colombia.”. In Tamar Herzog and Luis Roniger, The Collective and the Public in Latin America, pp. 174-191Sussex Academic Press.

Escobar, Cristina. 1994. “Clientelism and Social Protest: Peasant Politics in Northern Colombia.” In Luis Roniger & Ayse Gunes-Ayata, eds., Democracy, Clientelism  and Civil Society, pp. 65-85. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers. Reprinted in Spanish in Javier Auyero ed., Favores por Votos? Estudios sobre Clientelismo Político Contemporaneo, pp. 121-165. Buenos Aires: Losada (1997).

Escobar, Cristina. 1991.  “Organización y Participación Campesina” (Peasant’s     Organization and Participation). In Edelmira Pérez ed., El Campesinado en Colombia Hoy: Diagnóstico y Perspectivas, pp. 81-102. Bogotá: Ecoe Ediciones   & Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas.

Escobar, Cristina and Francisco De Roux. 1989. “Movimientos Populares en Colombia.” (Social Movements in Colombia). In Daniel Camacho and Rafael Menjívar eds., Los Movimientos Populares en América Latina. México, pp.147-214. Siglo XXI Editores and Universidad de las Naciones Unidas UNU.

Medrano, Diana and Cristina Escobar. 1985. “Pasado y Presente de las Organizaciones Femeninas en Colombia.” (Past and Present of the Women’s Organization in Colombia). In Elsy Bonilla ed., Mujer y Familia en Colombia, pp.223-284. Bogotá: Plaza y Janes.

Escobar, Cristina. 1983. “Trayectoria de la ANUC.” Colombia Agraria No 6, Bogotá: Cinep.

Books

 Cristina Escobar and Milena Gómez (eds). 2015   El Voto en el Exterior: Análisis Comparativo de las Elecciones En Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Cristina Escobar. 1987. Experiencias de Organización Campesina en el Valle del Cauca (Experiences of Peasant Organization in the Cauca Valle Region). Bogotá: Prodesal-IMCA-Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos.

Other Publications

Escobar, Cristina. 2019. “Dual Citizenship.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press.

Escobar, Cristina. 2017. “Migration and Franchise Expansion in Latin America.” Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Shuman Centre for Advance Study. http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/45709/GLOBALCIT_Comp_2017_01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Escobar, Cristina. 2015. “Access to Electoral Rights-Colombia.” Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Shuman Centre for Advance Study.  http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/35026/EUDO_CIT_CR_2015_02_Colombia_franchise.pdf?sequence=1

Escobar, Cristina. 2015. “National Report on Citizenship-Colombia.” Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Shuman Centre for Advance Study.  http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/35997/EUDO-CIT_2015_10-Colombia.pdf?sequence=3

Escobar, Cristina. 2015. “Dual Citizenship”. Suzanne Oboler and Denna J. González (eds.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law and Social Movements. New York: Oxford University Press.

Doctoral Dissertation

1998. Clientelism, Mobilization and Citizenship: Peasant Politics in Sucre, Colombia. UMI publication number: 9901446 CAL-SD.

Book Reviews

Escobar Cristina. 2018. “Studies of Migration Violence and transnational Relations in the  Latin America-U.S. Circuit”. Review of Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging by Berg, Ulla; Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions by    Susanne Jonas and Nestor Rodríguez; and American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador by David Pedersen. Migration Studies 6(1): 253-157.

Escobar, Cristina. 2009. Citizenship across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante by Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker. Contemporary Sociology

Escobar, Cristina. 1994.  Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Roger Brubaker. Social Forces, 72:4, June.

Film Review

Escobar, Cristina. 2007. “La Sierra”. Film directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. The Americas 63:3 (January).

Work in progress:

“Migration, Community and Politics: Colombian migration to the United States”

 

Teaching Experience

Program of Global Studies. Rutgers University-Camden, Lecturer             2018-Present

  • Introduction to Global Studies

Department of Sociology, Anthropology and C.J., Lecturer                         2022-Present

Department of Sociology. Temple University, Lecturer                                2016-2021

  • Gender in America
  • Ethnicity and the Immigrant American Experience in the U.S.
  • Politics of Identity
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Latin American Society (Spanish immersion program)

Program of Latin American Studies. Rutgers University-Cam., Lecturer     2010- 2013

  • Introduction of Latin American Studies

Department of Anthro. and Socio. West Chester University, Lecturer         2010- 2013

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Native Peoples of Latin America

Department of Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, Visiting Assistant Professor,

.Introduction to Sociology                                                                           2005-2006

  • Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Social Movements

Department of Sociology, Temple University, Visiting Assistant Professor  2000-2001

  • Migration, Ethnicity and Gender

Program of Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Postdoctoral fellow

  • Migration and Citizenship in the Americas                                          1999-2000

Research Positions

Research Consultant                                                                                  2014-2016

GLOBAL-CITIZENSHIP Project. European University Institute. Reports on Colombian Electoral and Rights; Colombian Citizenship; and Latin American Electoral Rights.

Research Associate                                                                                    2004-2011

Comparative Immigrant Organization Project. Center for Migration and Development. Princeton University

Research Consultant                                                                                  2008

Boston Redevelopment Authority, Research Division. Project Latino Immigrant Organization in Boston.

Research Associate                                                                                    1991-1992

Research on Colombian Politics and Peasant Mobilizations. Sucre. Rural Studies Unit, College of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.

Research Assistant                                                                                     Summer 1990

Analysis of field data on Mexican immigrants. Center for US – Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.

Member, research team.                                                                             Summer 1989

“State of California Economic Development Labor Project”, University of California, Berkeley. Watsonville, California.

Member, research team.                                                                            Summer-Winter 1988

Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. “Undocumented Migration from Mexican Sending Communities,” Michoacán, Mexico.

Other Professional Activities

Panel Organizer.                                                                                       May, 2012

“Political participation of Latin American Migrants.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, California. May.

Elected Council Member,                                                                         2006-2009

American Sociological Association, ASA.

Panel Organizer:                                                                                     September, 2001

“The Internally Displaced and Politically Motivated Migration in Colombia” Sec 35, meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC. September.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

“The Political Competence of Colombians and Mexicans at Home and Abroad”. LASA 2016, New York, May (with James McCann and Renelinda Arana).

“Regional Path to Global Convergence: Migration, Citizenship, and the Franchise in Latin America.” Spreading Citizenship: Regional Dynamics of Norm Diffusion in Europe and the Americas – 2015 EUDO-Dissemination Conference. Florence, November 2015.

“External vote and political preferences in the Colombian 2010.” presidential elections.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, California, May, 2012.

“Transnational Political Participation: Assessing the Impact of Reception Site.” Paper presented at the International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion, IMISCOE annual conference, Warsaw, September, 2011.

“From Defectors to Partners? Home country development and Latin American immigrant organizations in the U.S.” Paper presented at the 103rd American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2008, Boston.

“Exploring transnational civil society: A comparative study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the United States.”

Paper presented at the 102nd American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2007, New York City.

“Various Routes to Dual Citizenship and Extraterritorial Political Rights: The Colombian Experience in the Latin American and Caribbean Context”. Paper presented at the 98th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2003, Atlanta.

“Reform or Revolution?: Peasant Unrest in Northern Colombia.” Paper presented at the 97th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2002, Chicago.

“Democracy, Clientelism and Social Mobilization in Latin America: A Theoretical Reflection.” Paper presented at the 96th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2001, Anaheim.

“Clientelism and Citizenship: The Limits of the Democratic Reforms in Colombia.” XX International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April, 1997.

“State, Citizenship and pork-barrel politics.” Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, University of California. San Diego. March, 1995.

“State, Citizenship, and Clientelism in Colombia.” 89th  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, August, 1994.

“Peasant Politics in Colombia.” Latin American Studies Association XVIII International Congress. Atlanta, March, 1994.

“Clients or Citizens: Peasant Politics in Northern Colombia.”  XIIth World Congress of Sociology. Madrid, July, 1990.

Invited Presentations

 “Colombian and Dominican Immigrant Transnational organizations and Development”. II Transnational Immigrant Organizations Network Conference. Princeton University, May 11-12, 2012

“Immigrant Organizations and Development”. I Transnational Immigrant Organizations Network Conference. Princeton University, 4 11-12, 2011

“Transnational Relations among Immigrants and their Countries of Origin,” School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, May 11, 2010.

“The new migrant condition,” Organized by the Centre Jacques Berque and the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Moulay Idriss,  Morocco, June 4-5, 2009.

“Colombian Organizations, Civic Engagement and Political Participation.” Colombian Migration Conference: Transnational, Political, and Cultural Perspectives. Cornell University, April 12, 2008.

“From Defectors to Partners? Home country development and Latin American immigrant organizations in the U.S.” Le Développement par L’exil? Centre D’études et de Recherches Internacionales. Sciences Po-CNRS. Paris, 12 October 2007.

“Immigrant Organizations in the US: A Comparative Study” II Seminar International Colombian Migration and Transnational Communities” Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bogotá, Colombia, June 15-16 2006.

“Migration and Citizenship: The Mexican Case.” Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration. Taxco, Mexico. Princeton University-Universidad Nacional de México UNAM. January 2005.

“Dual Citizenship: A hindrance or a path to integration?”Latino Studies conference/workshop for the special issue of Latino Studies on “Latinos and Latinas and Shifting Meaning of Citizenship in the United States” Chicago, April 24-27, 2003.

“Different Paths to Dual Citizenship? A reflection on the Colombian case”. “Migration and Urbanization Seminar”, Population Studies Center, Pennsylvania University, February 21, 2003.

“Colombian dual Citizenship and Political Participation.” Paper presented to the Fellows Conference of the International Migration Program SSRC, “Immigration, Religion, and Civic Life.” Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, March 15-17, 2002.

“Clients or Citizens: Rural Politics in Northern Colombia.” PLAS Tuesday Seminar Series. Princeton University, April 2000.

“Organización y Participación Campesina” (Peasant’s Organization and Participation). Conference “El Campesinado en Colombia Hoy: Diagnóstico y Perspectivas.” Organized by Acción Popular Cultural y Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia. Bogotá, August, 1991.

“Papel de la Mujer en las Organizaciones Campesinas” (The Women’s Role in Peasant Organizations). First National Women’s Peasant Encounter, organized by the Departamento de Desarrollo Social del Ministerio de Agricultura. Bogotá, September, 1984.

“Movimientos Populares en Colombia” (Social Movements in Colombia). Seminar “Social Movements in Latin America.” PAL, Perspectivas de America Latina, UNU University of United Nations, and FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. San Jose de Costa Rica, November, 1983.