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“Those who come to do harm”: The Framings of Immigration Problems in Costa Rican Immigration Law

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type="main" xml:id="imre12073-abs-0001"> This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Costa Rican immigration law and subsequent immigration reform process and resulting 2010 law through an analysis of two rival framings of immigration in Costa Rica. First, I examine how the rushed nature of the 2006 law constructed a crisis in which migrants, particularly Nicaraguans, represented urgent threats to national security. Next, I examine the 2010 law that emerged from the reform process and the alternative framings of immigration as an issue of human rights and integration that migration advocates contributed to the new law. I argue that the juxtaposition of integration and security frameworks in the new law reinforces the law's most repressive measures, contributing to an overall project of securitization and marginalization of immigrants.

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  • Caitlin E. Fouratt, 2014. "“Those who come to do harm”: The Framings of Immigration Problems in Costa Rican Immigration Law," International Migration Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(1), pages 144-180, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:intmig:v:48:y:2014:i:1:p:144-180
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    1. Koen Voorend & Daniel Alvarado, 2023. "Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 747-771, June.
    2. Koen Voorend & Richard Anker & Martha Anker, 2017. "Informe sobre Living Wage: Costa Rica rural, Provincias Limón y Heredia (Mayo 2017)," Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) 17-02-01, Universidad Privada Boliviana.
    3. Shiri Noy & Koen Voorend, 2016. "Social Rights and Migrant Realities: Migration Policy Reform and Migrants’ Access to Health Care in Costa Rica, Argentina, and Chile," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 605-629, May.
    4. Koen Voorend & Richard Anker & Martha Anker, 2017. "Living Wage Benchmark Report: Rural Costa Rica, Limón and Heredia Provinces (May 2017)," Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) 17-01-02, Universidad Privada Boliviana.
    5. Voorend, Koen & Bedi, Arjun S. & Sura-Fonseca, Rebeca, 2021. "Migrants and access to health care in Costa Rica," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).

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