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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: https://doi.org/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 traves 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. 174-191. Sussex 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

 

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).