Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica

Carlos Sandoval-García is a professor at the Communication Studies School and Institute for Social Research at the University of Costa Rica.

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

Scholars of transnational mobilities worldwide stand to discover a whole new realm of knowledge on migration within as well as from (and to) the Global South in this aptly-titled groundbreaking collection by Carlos Sandoval-García. Comprising quantitative and qualitative as well as historical and contemporary perspectives from authors of diverse disciplinary provenance, Shattering Myths, not only takes us across neglected geographical borders, but, proceeding from its original, insightful and empirically-rich case studies, into new theoretical terrain. A genuinely compelling and inspiring volume which more than lives up to its name.