Lacomba

Cristina Lacomba

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Chapter Member: Boston SSN
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About Cristina

Lacomba’s areas of expertise include migration, non-profit organizations, social movements, law and society, ethnicity, identity, and language. Her work has investigated comparatively how immigrants engaged in political organizations navigate their environment to improve policy by voicing their demands to governments. Lacomba received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, has lectured in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University from 2014-2016, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from September 2016-2018. In 2013, Dr. Lacomba worked in the NGO Branch of the Department for Economic and Social Affairs in the United Nations Headquarters

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Contributions

Political Organizing in Ethnic Immigrant Communities

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In the News

"Taking Giant Leaps Forward," Cristina Lacomba (with Roberto Gonzales, Marco Murillo , Kristina Brant , Martha Franco , Jaein Lee, and Deepa Vasudevan), Center for American Progress, June 22, 2017.
Interview on the interaction between Senami, and Ecuadorean immigrants in Madrid and New York City Cristina Lacomba, El Comercio del Ecuador, January 9, 2012.

Publications

"Mobilizing Abroad across Ethic Lines: Home-Country Politics and Immigrant Political Engagement in Comparative Perspective" Ethnicities (2015).

Presents how the engagement of Ecuadorian political parties in the host societies heightens distrust among the participants in this study, inhibiting their organization at the ethno-national level. Argues that as a result, participants find venues for engagement outside of their nationality group.

"Reshaping Community Participation: Tunkaseños in a Binational Context" (with David Keyes, Norma Rodríguez, Diana Cervera, and Luis Manzanero Rodríguez), in Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Pedro Lewin, Leah Muse Orlinoff (Lynne Rienner, 2008).

Studies how the U.S. economic crisis that erupted in 2007 has affected flows of Mexican migrants to and from the United States by focusing on the Tunkás, a migrant-sending community in rural Yucatán and its satellite communities in southern California.