Colonia Ivu, San Salvador, El Salvador
Overview
My research focuses on how emigration affects political attitudes and behaviors in the home country. I study how emigration and remittances affect both those with family members abroad as well as those without family members abroad. My research examines these topics in Latin America with a particular focus on the Central American countries.
I am interested in how emigration and remittances could motivate or depress support for democracy. I am interested in understanding why a region like Central America, with high rates of emigration and high dependence on remittances, have struggled with democratic consolidation and experienced recent backsliding to authoritarianism. My research also engages with the relationship between migrant remittances and fiscal politics.
In collaboration with FLACSO-Honduras, we conducted a survey in October-November 2021 to analyze the effect of the migrant caravans and remittances on local political attitudes. This survey also asks Hondurans about transit migrants traveling through the country. I am currently developing plans for a similar project in El Salvador for 2022.
Papers
"Migrant Remittances and Demand for Redistribution." Studies in Comparative International Development 55.4 (2020): 403-435.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-020-09309-2
"Remittances and Underlying Authoritarian Attitudes in Latin America " (Revise & Resubmit)
"National Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment" with Covadonga Meseguer (Revise & Resubmit)
"Exit and Exodus: The Political Effects of Migrant Caravans"
"U.S. Latino Attitudes Towards Government, Policing, and Militarization in Latin America" with Angela X. Ocampo
"Attitudes Towards Transit Migrants in a Migrant-Sending Country"
"Pay to Stay or Pay to Leave: How Corruption Diverts Remittance Income for Future Migration"
"Remittances, Regime Type, and Social Spending in the Developing World" with Lauren Duquette-Rury
"Institutional Quality, Regime Type, and Emigration"
Works in Progress
"Political Costs of Staying and Migration Selection"
"Migration as a Private and Public Political Act"
Other Writings
"El futuro del bitcóin en El Salvador lo definirá la diáspora" El Faro. July 30. (LINK)
My research focuses on how emigration affects political attitudes and behaviors in the home country. I study how emigration and remittances affect both those with family members abroad as well as those without family members abroad. My research examines these topics in Latin America with a particular focus on the Central American countries.
I am interested in how emigration and remittances could motivate or depress support for democracy. I am interested in understanding why a region like Central America, with high rates of emigration and high dependence on remittances, have struggled with democratic consolidation and experienced recent backsliding to authoritarianism. My research also engages with the relationship between migrant remittances and fiscal politics.
In collaboration with FLACSO-Honduras, we conducted a survey in October-November 2021 to analyze the effect of the migrant caravans and remittances on local political attitudes. This survey also asks Hondurans about transit migrants traveling through the country. I am currently developing plans for a similar project in El Salvador for 2022.
Papers
"Migrant Remittances and Demand for Redistribution." Studies in Comparative International Development 55.4 (2020): 403-435.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-020-09309-2
"Remittances and Underlying Authoritarian Attitudes in Latin America " (Revise & Resubmit)
"National Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment" with Covadonga Meseguer (Revise & Resubmit)
"Exit and Exodus: The Political Effects of Migrant Caravans"
"U.S. Latino Attitudes Towards Government, Policing, and Militarization in Latin America" with Angela X. Ocampo
"Attitudes Towards Transit Migrants in a Migrant-Sending Country"
"Pay to Stay or Pay to Leave: How Corruption Diverts Remittance Income for Future Migration"
"Remittances, Regime Type, and Social Spending in the Developing World" with Lauren Duquette-Rury
"Institutional Quality, Regime Type, and Emigration"
Works in Progress
"Political Costs of Staying and Migration Selection"
"Migration as a Private and Public Political Act"
Other Writings
"El futuro del bitcóin en El Salvador lo definirá la diáspora" El Faro. July 30. (LINK)
