Threatening Others : Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica

Authors

• Carlos Sandoval-Garcia

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Series

Research in International Studies, Latin America Series

Description

During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”
Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery. It also seeks to address more generally why the sense of national belonging constitutes a crucial identification in contemporary societies. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive fieldwork, it looks critically at the “exceptionalism” that Costa Ricans take for granted and view as a part of their national identity.
Carlos Sandoval-García argues that Nicaraguan immigrants, once perceived as a “communist threat,” are now victims of an invigorated, racialized politics in which the Nicaraguan nationality has become an offense in itself.
Threatening Others is a deeply searching book that will interest scholars and students in Latin American studies and politics, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.

Copyright Statement

Threatening Others © 2004 and 2014 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780896804432

Publication Date

8-27-2014

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Nicaraguan immigrants, migration, national identity, nationalism, identity formation, xenophobia, racialization, ethnic relations, social exclusion, otherness, Costa Rican exceptionalism, transnationalism, political culture, cultural studies, ethnic studies, Latin America, Carlos Sandoval-García.

Disciplines

Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Latina/o Studies | Migration Studies | Political Science | Politics and Social Change

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Sandoval-Garcia, Carlos, "Threatening Others : Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica" (2014). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 117.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/117