Profile
Dr. Cruz Lera is an associate researcher working at the CISAN. She is developing the research project “Political Minorities and the Agenda Setting in the United States: Agents of Change or Political Disruption”.
She received her PhD in Politics, Policy and International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Her B.A. and MPhil in International Relations was obtained from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
She is member of the Nacional System of Researchers of Conacyt-Mexico. Her main lines of research are: US politics and government, Latino politics, political incorporation of minorities and migration policy.
Dr. Cruz-Lera teaches and supervises thesis in the UNAM School of Political Sciences and its Postgraduate Program.
She has been a short-term visiting researcher at ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), Brown University and Georgetown University (United States). In 2017 she was recognized as an Emerging Researcher in Diversity and Social Inclusion by the Mellon Foundation-City University of New York alliance. In 2021 she was recognized by the US Department of State and the University of Delaware as SUSI Scholar on US Foreign Policy.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2769-8483
CVU Conacyt: 550681
SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57195073221
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Estefania-Cruz-Lera
Position:
Fulltime Research Fellow
Research Areas
- US Politics and Government
- Political Incorporation of Minorities in the United States
- US Congress and Party System
- US-Mexico Migration Policy and Latino politics
Recent Publications
Cruz Lera, Estefanía (2021) Minorías políticas en Estados Unidos: representación y agencia de cambio, CISAN-UNAM, México, pp. 252. ISBN: 978-607-30-4646-6
Academic Journal Articles (JCR):
Cruz Lera Estefanía (2022), “¿Es factible un Green New Deal para Estados Unidos?: Un análisis a partir de las trayectorias dependientes y los legados de la política progresista en su historia”, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales.
Cruz Lera, Estefanía (2021) “When Local Political Opportunity Structures Matter in Political Agency: The Multipronged Incorporation of Latinos in Chicago”, Local Government Studies Journal (Taylor & Francis Group). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2020.1857248
Cruz Lera, Estefanía (2020) “Women from the Establishment versus the “Squad”: Female Political Representational Styles In the U.S Congress” [Versión en español disponible: Las mujeres del establishment vs el escuadrón: Estilos de representación política femenina en el Congreso estadunidense], Norteamérica,15: 1, p. 33-56.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2019.2.389
Cruz Lera, Estefanía (2019) “El espectro de ciudades santuario en Estados Unidos: Los contrastes en la génesis y las prácticas de las políticas locales proinmigrantes [Versión en inglés: The Spectrum of Sanctuary Cities in the United States: Contrasting the Genesis and Practices of Proimmigrant Local Policies]”, Estudios Fronterizos, 20: e029. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21670/ ref.1908029
Cruz Lera, Estefanía (2019) “Transnacionalismo desde abajo y multiculturalismo desde arriba: perspectivas de ciudadanía para la incorporación migrante en Chicago [Versión en inglés: Transnationalism From Below and Multiculturalism From Above: Citizenship Perspectives for Immigrant Incorporation in Chicago]”, Migraciones Internacionales, 10: e012, El Colef. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2167
Cruz Lera, Estefania (2019) “La gobernanza de las migraciones transnacionales mexicanas y china en EE.UU.: el nexo entre la diáspora y el 'Estado creativo' para el codesarrollo”. Revista mexicana de Ciencias Políticas, 64: 236, p. 21-48. DOI: http: //dx.doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2019.236.61260
Cruz Lera, Estefania (2017) “Refugiados mexicanos de la violencia del narcotráfico en los EE. UU.”, Foro Internacional, Colegio de México, 229: 3, p. 576-606. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24201/fi.v52i3.2449
Cruz Lera, Estefania (2017) “Young Immigrants Association and the Future Latino Leadership in the US: Social Capital and Political Engagement of Dreamers”, Norteamérica, CISAN-UNAM, 11: 2, p. 165-19. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20999/nam.2016.b007
