Browsing by Subject "Social policy"

Cruzando fronteras en vulnerabilidad. Estudio de la protección social transnacional en el Sur Global

Voorend, Koen; Alvarado Abarca, Daniel José (Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020-08-31)

Más de 270 millones de personas en el mundo viven en países diferentes al de su nacimiento. Estas acceden a servicios sociales, cuidan a miembros de sus familias, ahorran para su jubilación y opinan en la agenda pública. ...

How did Costa Rica achieve social and market incorporation?

Martínez Franzoni, Juliana; Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego (CEPAL, 2017-04)

In 1980, just before the debt crisis and in contrast with the experience of the rest of Latin America, almost all Costa Ricans had formal jobs and high-quality social services. To explain this double social and market ...

“Shifting in” migration control Universalism and immigration in Costa Rica

Voorend, Koen (International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), 2013)

When the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), the flagship institution of Costa Rica’s ‘exceptional’ -solidary and universal- social policy regime, entered in financial crisis in 2011, the already difficult social ...

“Shifting in” state sovereignty: social policy and migration control in Costa Rica

Voorend, Koen (Routledge, 2014)

This paper challenges the globalist claim that nation states lose sovereignty to normative frameworks of international human rights with regards to their migration policy. In contrast, the analysis of the interplay between ...