Associate Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at American University
About
Ernesto Castañeda is associate professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the founding director of the Immigration Lab. He is the author of Building Walls: The Exclusion of Latin People in the U.S. (Lexington Books 2021), A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Belonging and Exclusion in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Stanford University Press 2018); and with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood Social Movements 1768-2018 (Routledge 2020). He has written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hill, CityLab, and is a frequent guest on France24, Telemundo, Univision, and NTN24. He has forthcoming books on immigration myths and Central American unaccompanied children.
Current Work:
Dr. Castañeda study's the barriers to integration and exclusion faced by Latinos and minorities. He focuses on immigration, urban dynamics, social movements, and health disparities.
Research Area(s):
- immigration; exclusion; inequality; integration; mental health
