Costa Rica as a source of emigrants: a reading from a political economy approach

 

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Údar: Gatica López, Gustavo
Formáid: artículo original
Stádas:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2017
Cur Síos:Available data shows an increase in international migration departing from Costa Rica, mainly to the United States. Based on the data obtained from two surveys conducted with potential emigrants and families with members living abroad, this paper is aimed at understanding their reasons for emigrating. In addition, some socio-economic impacts in four suburbs with high rates of emigration are identified. From a political economy approach, the most appropriate framework to better understand these emigration cases is discussed.  Moreover, the transformation of the employment and productive matrix followed by Costa Rica during the last three decades, as well as the country’s form of insertion into the international economy are two structural factors strongly linked to the emigration of the subjects studied in this paper.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institiúid:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Teanga:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/9232
Rochtain Ar Líne:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/economia/article/view/9232
Palabra clave:migration
development
family remittances
migración
desarrollo
remesas familiares