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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sandoval García, Carlos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.