Foreign immigration in Costa Rican history / Patricia Alvarenga -- The quantitative dimension of Nicaraguan immigration in Costa Rica: from myth to reality / Carlos Castro -- Selected sociodemographic aspects of U.S., Canadian, and European residents in Costa Rica / Flora V. Calderón-Steck and Roger E. Bonilla-Carrión -- Replacement migration: new poles of exclusion in transborder migrations in central America / Abelardo Morales -- Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica and public policies / Gustavo Gatica -- The social security health system and its uses by Nicaraguans in Costa Rica / Roger E. Bonilla-Carrión -- Family remittances sent by Costa Ricans in the United States / Erika Chaves -- The first Costa Rican emigrants to New York and New Jersey / Carmen Kordick de Cubero -- Toward a transnational conception in the study of and attention to Costa Rican migration / Carmen Caamaño -- Vulnerability to violence in immigration: Nicaraguan and Panamanian women in migratory transit to Costa Rica / Rocío Loría -- Transnational reproduction: reproductive health, limitations, and contradictions for working Nicaraguan migrant women in Costa Rica / Kate Goldade -- Working migrant women and nontraditional agricultural exports: women workers in packing plants in Costa Rica / Sang Lee -- "They're machistas, they treat them badly": comparative transnational masculinity in sex tourism / Megan Rivers-Moore -- The alterity joke: the nightmare of being the "other" / Jorge Ramírez -- Jokes about Nicaraguans: symbolic barriers, social control mechanisms, and identity constructors / Karen Masís and Laura Paniagua -- NICA/ragüense: the making of a documentary / Julia Fleming -- Challenges in migration research: reflections from Costa Rica / Carlos Sandoval-García.