Ernesto Castañeda, PhD
Director at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
Areas of Expertise: Urban Issues, Health Disparities, Marginalized Populations, Social Movements
Ernesto Castañeda is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, the Immigration Lab, and the Masters in Sociology, Research, and Practice at American University in Washington, DC. Castañeda conducts research on migration, urban issues, health disparities, vulnerable populations, contentious politics and social movements. He compares immigrant integration and ethnic political mobilization in the U.S. and Western Europe. He has conducted surveys and ethnographic fieldwork in the United States, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, Algeria, and Morocco; and published on remittances and development; integration and transnationalism; hometown associations and diaspora organizations; urban exclusion; the border fence; transnational families and the children of migrants left behind; health disparities within immigrant, public housing, and homeless Hispanic populations.
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