Currently he is visiting scholar at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) and at the CCIS. His areas of Research include discourse analysis, ethnicity, democratization, human rights, state formation and transnationalism. His published work has focused on ethnic relations and democratization in Nicaragua, and on the discursive representation of Latinos in the U.S. His recent publications include: ‘El dilema colectivo de los pueblos miskitos de Nicaragua en los años 90. El caso de Tasbapauni’ (with Cristopher Kindblad), and ‘Ethnic Self-Regulation and Democratic Instability on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast. The case of Ratisuna’. European Journal of Latin American Studies. He is the leading editor for the “Diálogos Latinoamericanos”, a biannual and trilingual journal published at the University of Aarhus........