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“Housing Damages and Aid Following Hurricane María: An Analysis of FEMA Individual Assistance Data” (with Raúl Santiago Bartolomei), Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2022.2055612, 2022.
“Tracking Changes in Geographies of Opportunity for Post-Disaster Legacy Cities: A Case Study of San Juan, Puerto Rico” (with Raúl Santiago Bartolomei and Enrique Figueroa Grillasca), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Working Paper WP22RS1, 2022.
“PROMESA: A Failed Colonial Experiment?” (with Sergio M. Marxuach and Rosanna Torres), 2021.
“Tracing the Virus and Uncovering Innovation in Puerto Rico“, items, Social Science Research Council, 2021.
“Urban Informality: International Trends and Policies to Address Land Tenure and Informal Settlements” (with Oscar Sosa López and Raúl Santiago Bartolomei), 2019.
“Hometown Associations and the Micro Politics of Transnational Community Development“, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44, no. 5 (2018): 754-772.
“Transforming the Recovery into Locally-led Growth: Federal Contracting in the Post-Disaster Period” (with Raúl Santiago Bartolomei), 2018.
Review of “The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence and The American Dream” by Randol Contreras. Planning Perspectives 30, no. 1 (2015): 172-174.
“Athens on the Caribbean” (with Andrew Schrank) Foreign Affairs, (July 6, 2015).
“Empowering Cooperation: Dominican Hometown Associations and the Politics of Transnational Community Development” Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT (2014).
“Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus from the Perspective of Time” (with Peggy Levitt) Migration Letters 10, no. 1 (2013): 11-22.
“Bringing Culture Back In: Opportunities and Challenges for the Migration Development Nexus” (with Peggy Levitt) In eds. Jeronimo Cortina and Enrique Ochoa-Reza, New Perspectives on International Migration and Development. New York: Columbia University Press. 2013
“Hometown Associations” In ed. Immanuel Ness, Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. New York: Wiley. 2013 [www.migrationencyclopedia.com]
“Escalas de las comunidades imaginarias: de lo local a lo transnacional y viceversa” En eds. Felipe de Alba y Frederic Lesemann, Informalidad e incertidumbre: ¿cómo estudiamos la informalización en las metrópolis? México: UNAM. 2012
“Social Remittances Revisited” (with Peggy Levitt) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37, no. 1 (2011): 1-22.
Review of “The New Puerto Rico? Identity, Hybridity, and Transnationalism within the Puerto Rican Diaspora in Orlando, Florida” by Luis Sánchez. CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 22, no. 1 (2010): 309-311.