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Threatening others : Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval-García.
- Title
- Threatening others : Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval-García.
- Author
- Sandoval García, Carlos
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2004.
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- Description
- xxiii, 240 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A decline in public expenditure has affected cherished national institutions & values in Costa Rica, with the blame tending to be placed on immigrant Nicaraguans. This book explores the construction of the 'other' in Costa Rican imagery & considers the role of national identification in modern societies.
- Series Statement
- Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 42
- Uniform Title
- Otros amenazantes. English
- Research in international studies. Latin America series no. 42.
- Alternative Title
- Otros amenazantes.
- Subject
- Discrimination > Costa Rica
- Ethnicity > Costa Rica
- Identity (Psychology) > Costa Rica
- Noncitizens > Costa Rica > Public opinion
- Nationalism > Costa Rica
- Nicaraguans > Costa Rica > Public opinion
- Public opinion > Costa Rica
- Illegal immigration > Costa Rica > Public opinion
- Undocumented Immigrants
- 15.85 history of America
- Noncitizens > Public opinion
- Discrimination
- Ethnic relations
- Ethnicity
- Identity (Psychology)
- Nationalism
- Public opinion
- Formation of government
- National identity
- Noncitizens
- Costa Rica > Ethnic relations
- Costa Rica
- Costa Rica
- Nicaragua
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Making sense of national identities -- Media representations of Nicaraguans in Costa Rica -- Costa Rican exceptionalism and the Nicaraguan other in historical perspective -- Belonging and racialization as lived experience -- Material decline, dislocation, and racialization.
- ISBN
- 0896802353
- 9780896802353
- LCCN
- 2004000099
- 99808878468
- OCLC
- 54023994
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library