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This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the... more This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the temporal aspects of illegality produced by immigration law. Two sets of temporary measures highlight the temporality of both law and illegality. First, frequent legal reform, temporary immigration measures, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration administration create a sense of Costa Rican immigration law as temporary. The ongoing temporary character of law and the forms of immigrant illegality it generates create uncertainty about the boundaries between legality and illegality among migrants in Costa Rica. Second, Nicaraguans in Costa Rica respond to the indeterminacy of the law and their economic and social position in relation to it through their own temporary measures. These measures constitute two forms of waiting: first, immigrants feel " locked up " by the shifting legal and administrative complexities of immigration; and second, they create quasi-legal ways to navigate immigration law during the long process of legalization of their status.
This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Co... more 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.
Anthropology Today, 2009
... AAA encounters: Challenging boundaries and rethinking ethics, American Anthropological Associ... more ... AAA encounters: Challenging boundaries and rethinking ethics, American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting. Caitlin Fouratt,; Janny Li,; Taylor Nelms. Article first published online: 27 MAR 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00660.x. © RAI 2009. Issue. ...
This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the... more This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the temporal aspects of illegality produced by immigration law. Two sets of temporary measures highlight the temporality of both law and illegality. First, frequent legal reform, temporary immigration measures, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration administration create a sense of Costa Rican immigration law as temporary. The ongoing temporary character of law and the forms of immigrant illegality it generates create uncertainty about the boundaries between legality and illegality among migrants in Costa Rica. Second, Nicaraguans in Costa Rica respond to the indeterminacy of the law and their economic and social position in relation to it through their own temporary measures. These measures constitute two forms of waiting: first, immigrants feel " locked up " by the shifting legal and administrative complexities of immigration; and second, they create quasi-legal ways to navigate immigration law during the long process of legalization of their status.
This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Co... more 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.
Anthropology Today, 2009
... AAA encounters: Challenging boundaries and rethinking ethics, American Anthropological Associ... more ... AAA encounters: Challenging boundaries and rethinking ethics, American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting. Caitlin Fouratt,; Janny Li,; Taylor Nelms. Article first published online: 27 MAR 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00660.x. © RAI 2009. Issue. ...