Shattering myths on immigration and emigration in Costa Rica /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Sandoval García, Carlos
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
Subjects:	Nicaraguans > Costa Rica > Social conditions. Immigrants > Costa Rica > Social conditions. Costa Rica > Emigration and immigration. Nicaragua > Emigration and immigration. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.