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Social Rights and Migrant Realities: Migration Policy Reform and Migrants’ Access to Health Care in Costa Rica, Argentina, and Chile
(2016)
Immigration poses a significant challenge to states’ existing social protection systems, especially in developing countries that are already struggling to provide social services for their citizens. In particular, immigration ...
Estimating the Number of Immigrants in Spain: An Indirect Method Based on Births and Fertility Rates
(2011)
This article proposes an indirect method to validate existing estimates of immigrants’ stock from the Spanish municipal population register, which some believe might be over-counting immigrants who double register in ...
The declining effect of sibling size on children's education in Costa Rica
(2014-12-12)
Background: Costa Rica experienced a dramatic fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s. The same period saw substantial improvement in children’s educational attainment in Costa Rica. This correlation is consistent with ...
Capital humano y social de los nicaragüenses con experiencia migratoria a Costa Rica y Estados Unidos
(2005-04)
El principal antecedente del presente estudio lo constituye la significativa emigración de nicaragüenses hacia Estados Unidos y Costa Rica, la cual se ha convertido en uno de los principales rasgos del panorama sociodemográfico ...
Population and deforestation in Costa Rica
(1998-11)
This paper addresses a central debate in research and policy on population and environment, namely the extent to which rapid population growth is associated with the massive deforestation currently underway in the tropics. ...
Fatherless Costa Rica: Child Acknowledgment and Support Among Lone Mothers
(2003)
Much debate is going on in Costa Rica about the increase of out-of-wedlock births and unestablished paternity in particular with regard to the elaboration of social policy measures. No systematic empirical data on the issue ...
Costa Rica en la migración regional, perspectivas recientes (2000-2014)
Costa Rica in regional migration, recent perspectives (2000-2014)
(2017)
This work is a bibliographical review of all the research undertaken in Costa Rica regarding international migrations, in the period between 2000-2014. It allows easily identifying the subjects that have been studied in ...
Trabajando con población migrante en Costa Rica: reflexiones sobre la relación entre organizaciones de ayuda y las bases para la acción colectiva
Working with Migrant Population in Costa Rica: Reflections on the Relationship between Aid Organizations and the Foundations for Collective Action
(2014)
En este artículo reflexionamos sobre las funciones de las organizaciones de ayuda a migrantes y sus posibilidades de desarrollar acciones políticas colectivas. A través de los seminarios de migración y subjetividad del ...
Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?
(2009-02-20)
The 2000 censuses show that the proportion of women below age 30 who are mothers has dropped substantially in most Latin America countries, suggesting that the social imperative of early motherhood, which has long prevailed ...
El capital a escala global-nacional y el malestar de las naciones
The capital at global-national scale and the unrest of nations
(2018-03)
En este artículo se propone uno de los elementos que explica las crecientes y extendidas manifestaciones de malestar social entre los más diversos pueblos de la Tierra. La acumulación de capital como fundamento del crecimiento ...