“Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica

This paper challenges the globalist claim that nation states lose sovereignty to normative frameworks of international human rights with regards to their migration policy. In contrast, the analysis of the interplay between migration and social policy in Costa Rica shows that states may find invent...

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Autor Principal: Voorend, Koen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Routledge 2019
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Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10669/79507
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spelling 795072021-10-22T20:33:55Z “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica Voorend, Koen Social policy Migration policy Sovereignty Integration Citizenship This paper challenges the globalist claim that nation states lose sovereignty to normative frameworks of international human rights with regards to their migration policy. In contrast, the analysis of the interplay between migration and social policy in Costa Rica shows that states may find inventive ways to maintain control over its migration policy and remain central in the granting of social rights to immigrants and their actual access to social policy. Indeed, Costa Rica has shifted in its migration control, by giving the country’s emblematic and praised social security and healthcare institution, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, a pivotal role in immigrants’ regularization process, thereby creating barriers to healthcare benefits for immigrants. As such, the state remains central in processes of social integration, while citizenship and migratory status continue to be key determinants for immigrants’ access to national welfare benefits UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS) 2019-11-7T08:46:00Z 2019-11-7T08:46:00Z 2019-11-7T08:46:00Z 2014 artículo original artículo original https://hdl.handle.net/10669/79507 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Routledge Transnational Social Review: A Social Work Journal. Vol. 4, Núm. 2-3. pp. 207-225
institution Universidad de Costa Rica
collection Repositorio KERWA
topic Social policy
Migration policy
Sovereignty
Integration
Citizenship
spellingShingle Social policy
Migration policy
Sovereignty
Integration
Citizenship
Voorend, Koen
“Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
description This paper challenges the globalist claim that nation states lose sovereignty to normative frameworks of international human rights with regards to their migration policy. In contrast, the analysis of the interplay between migration and social policy in Costa Rica shows that states may find inventive ways to maintain control over its migration policy and remain central in the granting of social rights to immigrants and their actual access to social policy. Indeed, Costa Rica has shifted in its migration control, by giving the country’s emblematic and praised social security and healthcare institution, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, a pivotal role in immigrants’ regularization process, thereby creating barriers to healthcare benefits for immigrants. As such, the state remains central in processes of social integration, while citizenship and migratory status continue to be key determinants for immigrants’ access to national welfare benefits
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author Voorend, Koen
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title “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
title_short “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
title_full “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
title_fullStr “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed “Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica
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url https://hdl.handle.net/10669/79507
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