Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica

Herausgeber: Sandoval-García, Carlos

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Produktbeschreibung

Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica is a major contribution to scholarship on Central American immigration by the sheer number of topics it covers by an internationally recognized team of scholars from several disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780739144671
• ISBN-10: 0739144677
• Artikelnr.: 32305244

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carlos Sandoval-García - Translated by Kari Meyers - Contributions by Patricia Alvarenga; Roger E. Bonilla-Calderón; Mónica Brenes; Carmen Caamaño; Flora V. Calderón-Steck; Carlos Castro; Erika Chaves; Piet den Blanken; Julia Fleming; Gustavo Ga

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Migrant Communities in Costa Rica
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Foreign immigration in Costa Rican history Chapter 4
Chapter 2. The quantitative dimension of Nicaraguan immigration in Costa
Rica: From myth to reality Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Selected socio-demographic
aspects of the U.S., Canadian, and European residents in Costa Rica Chapter
6 Chapter 4. Replacement migration: New poles of exclusion in transborder
migrations in Central America Part 7 Part II: Immigration and Public
Policies Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica and public
policies Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The Social Security Health System and its
uses by Nicaraguans in Costa Rica Part 10 Part III: Costa Rican Emigration
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Family remittances sent by Costa Ricans in the United
States Chapter 12 Chapter 8. The first Costa Rican emigrants to New York
and New Jersey Chapter 13 Chapter 9. Toward a transnational conception in
the study of and attention to Costa Rican migration Part 14 Part IV:
Immigration and Gender Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Vulnerability to violence in
immigration: Nicaraguan and Panamanian women in migratory transit to Costa
Rica Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Transnational reproduction: Reproductive
health, limitations and contradictions for working Nicaraguan migrant women
in Costa Rica Chapter 17 Chapter 12. Working migrant women and
nontraditional agricultural exports: Women workers in packing plants in
Costa Rica Chapter 18 Chapter 13. "They're machistas, they treat them
badly": Comparative transnational masculinity in sex tourism Part 19 Part
V: Social Imaginaries of Migration Chapter 20 Chapter 14. The alterity
joke: The nightmare of being the other Chapter 21 Chapter 15. Jokes about
Nicaraguans in Costa Rica: Symbolic barriers, social control mechanisms,
identity constructors Chapter 22 Chapter 16. NICA/ragüense: The making of
the documentary Chapter 23 Chapter 17. Challenges in migration research:
Reflections from Costa Rica