About

Carolina Bank Muñoz's work focuses on immigration, labor, work, and Latin America.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Media studies
• Gender studies
• History
• Political economy
• Law

Selected publications

• Symposium on Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

  preprintOpen accessSenior author
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• Media Tropes and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Chile’s Constitutional Reform Process

  Critical Sociology · 2024 · 1 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

  This article examines the legacies of racism and settler colonialism in contemporary Chile by examining political discourses in the context of the country’s failed Constitutional reform process. We analyze newspaper articles during the period of the first progressive and the second conservative constitutional projects, which were both rejected in popular referendums in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Through our analysis, we find how media narratives of the two main printed national outlets created a notion of dual enemies, portraying Mapuche indigenous people as internal enemies or ‘terrorists’ and immigrants, particularly Black immigrants, as external agitators during this period. We argue that settler colonial legacies and racial dynamics are central but understudied features in the analysis of Chilean social reality and show how the constitutional process provided an opportunity to see these dynamics enacted in the context of political transformation.

  PublisherDOI

• A People's Guide to New York City

  2022 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • History
  • Sociology
  PublisherDOI

• 2. Manhattan

  2022-01-25

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• 4. Brooklyn

  2022-01-25

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• 1. Bronx

  2022-01-25

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• 5. Staten Island

  2022-01-25

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• Maps

  2022-01-25

  book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• University of California Press People’s Guides

  2022-01-25

  book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• A People's Guide to New York City

  2022-01-25

  book1st authorCorresponding

  This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called "outer boroughs," outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the lives of the diverse communities across the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Emily Tumpson Molina

  11 shared

• Penny Lewis

  11 shared

• Stephanie Luce

  2 shared

• Daisy Rooks

  2 shared

• Antonio Stecher

  Diego Portales University

  2 shared

• Bridget Kenny

  2 shared

• Kent Wong

  Colorado Permanente Medical Group

  1 shared

• Marco Castillo

  The Graduate Center, CUNY

  1 shared