Ernesto Castaneda

Ernesto Castañeda is Director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Laitn American and Latino Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, DC. His analyses have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hill, CityLab, Medium, and NPR among many others. He is the author of "Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions" with Carina Cione (Columbia University Press 2024); "Reunited" with Daniel Jenks (Russell Sage Foundation 2024); "A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Belonging and Exclusion in New York, Paris, and Barcelona" (Stanford University Press 2018); "Building Walls: The Exclusion of Latin People in the US" (Lexington Books 2019), and with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of "Social Movements 1768–2018" (Routledge 2020). He is the editor of "Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity" (Routledge 2018); and co-editor with Cathy L. Schneider of "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader" (Routledge 2017).