Shattering myths on immigration and emigration in Costa Rica
Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars fromdiverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa Rican migration patterns in the era of globalization. The first section focuses on immigration in Costa Rican history, including chapters on Nicaraguan, North American and European immigration to the country as well a chapter on transnational migration within Central America
1 online resource (xxvi, 339 pages)
9780739144695, 9780739144695, 9786612976988, 0739144693, 6612976985
701053926
Foreign immigration in Costa Rican history / Patricia Alvarenga
The quantitative dimension of Nicaraguan immigration in Costa Rica: from myth to reality / Carlos Castro
Selected sociodemographic aspects of U.S., Canadian, and European residents in Costa Rica / Flora V. Calderón-Steck and Roger E. Bonilla-Carrión
Replacement migration: new poles of exclusion in transborder migrations in central America / Abelardo Morales
Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica and public policies / Gustavo Gatica
The social security health system and its uses by Nicaraguans in Costa Rica / Roger E. Bonilla-Carrión
Family remittances sent by Costa Ricans in the United States / Erika Chaves
The first Costa Rican emigrants to New York and New Jersey / Carmen Kordick de Cubero
Toward a transnational conception in the study of and attention to Costa Rican migration / Carmen Caamaño
Vulnerability to violence in immigration: Nicaraguan and Panamanian women in migratory transit to Costa Rica / Rocío Loría
Transnational reproduction: reproductive health, limitations, and contradictions for working Nicaraguan migrant women in Costa Rica / Kate Goldade
Working migrant women and nontraditional agricultural exports: women workers in packing plants in Costa Rica / Sang Lee
"They're machistas, they treat them badly": comparative transnational masculinity in sex tourism / Megan Rivers-Moore
The alterity joke: the nightmare of being the "other" / Jorge Ramírez
Jokes about Nicaraguans: symbolic barriers, social control mechanisms, and identity constructors / Karen Masís and Laura Paniagua
NICA/ragüense: the making of a documentary / Julia Fleming
Challenges in migration research: reflections from Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval-García
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