Keeping heads above water : Salvadorean refugees in Costa Rica / Tanya Basok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basok, Tanya, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salvadorans--Costa Rica--Social conditions.

Salvadorans.

Salvadorans--Costa Rica--Economic conditions.

Political refugees--El Salvador.

Political refugees.

Political refugees--Costa Rica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 159 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Costa Rica has a long-established humanitarian tradition as a country of asylum for refugees fleeing repressive regimes in other South American countries. Salvadorean refugees began arriving in Costa Rica in 1980, and many of them received assistance directed at making them self-sufficient. In Keeping Heads Above Water Tanya Basok focuses on the urban development programs funded and implemented by various international and domestic, governmental and non-governmental agencies. Basing her study on extensive field-work with Salvadorean refugees, she addresses the questions of why some small urban refugee enterprises failed, and how and why others survived and flourished.

Contents:

Introduction Part One: Departure And Arrival 1 El Salvador: Why a Refugee Movement? 2 Costa Rica As a Country of Asylum 3 Social Integration of Salvadoreans Part Two: Refugee Aid 4 Settlement of Refugees: Types of Assistance 5 Durable Solution and Local Settlement Urban Employment Programs Part Three: Explaining Survival And Success Of Salvadorean Urban Enterprises 6 Petty Commodity Production: Dissolution and Conservation 7 Relations With the Capitalist Sector 8 Internal Aspects of Production Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85626-X

9786612856266

0-7735-6378-4

OCLC:

929121084