Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN COSTA RICA -- Chapter One Foreign Immigration in Costa Rican History -- Chapter Two The Quantitative Dimension of Nicaraguan Immigration in Costa Rica From Myth to Reality 1 -- Chapter Three Selected Sociodemographic Aspects of U.S., Canadian, and European Residents in Costa Rica -- Chapter Four Replacement Migration New Poles of Exclusion in Transborder Migrations in Central America 1 -- Part II IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC POLICIES -- Chapter Five Nicaraguan Migration to Costa Rica and Public Policies -- Chapter Six The Social Security Health System and its Uses by Nicaraguans in Costa Rica -- Part III COSTA RICAN EMIGRATION -- Chapter Seven Family Remittances Sent by Costa Ricans in the United States 1 -- Chapter Eight The First Costa Rican Emigrants to New York and New Jersey 1 -- Chapter Nine Toward a Transnational Conception in the Study of and Attention to Costa Rican Migration 1 -- Part IV IMMIGRATION AND GENDER -- Chapter Ten Vulnerability to Violence in Immigration Nicaraguan and Panamanian Women in Migratory Transit to Costa Rica 1 -- Chapter Eleven Transnational Reproduction Reproductive Health, Limitations, and Contradictions for Working Nicaraguan Migrant Women in Costa Rica -- Chapter Twelve Working Migrant Women and Nontraditional Agricultural Exports Women Workers in Packing Plants in Costa Rica 1 -- Chapter Thirteen "They're Machistas, They Treat Them Badly" Comparative Transnational Masculinity in Sex Tourism -- Part V SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF MIGRATION -- Chapter Fourteen The Alterity Joke The Nightmare of Being the "Other" -- Chapter Fifteen Jokes about Nicaraguans Symbolic Barriers, Social Control Mechanisms, and Identity Constructors -- Chapter Sixteen NICA/ragüense The Making of the Documentary.

Chapter Seventeen Challenges in Migration Research Reflections from Costa Rica -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor.