Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua

Steel, Griet; Winters, Nanneke; Sosa, Carlos R.

doi:10.3828/idpr.2011.21

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“…For Santos (33 years, León), this striving for a better life motivated three migration attempts to the US and Costa Rica. Seguir adelante is commonly expressed in Latin American countries, reflecting the individual’s effort of trying to escape poverty [51,52]. Similarly to previous research [53] the interviewees in this study stressed the importance of work and children’s education in order to seguir adelante for a better future.…”

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‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Gustafsson

2018

Global Health Action

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Background: Nicaraguans have migrated internally and internationally for centuries due to economic, political and sociocultural factors. Deficiencies in the country’s health care system have produced inequities in people’s access to health care and medicines. Remittances have become an important source of income, partly invested in health.Objectives: The overall aim of the study was to analyse migration–health relations in contemporary Nicaragua within a broader context of socio-economic transformations.Methods: The study uses a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative interview data and quantitative survey data.Results: The findings show that migration is commonly practised as a strategy for making a living and is related to the struggle for a better life. Health concerns are indirectly embedded in people’s mobile livelihoods, but also directly influence migration motives. Furthermore, migration involves both advantages and disadvantages for health. Physical and sexual violence can come to an end for migrating women, health care and medicine can become more accessible for internal migrants, and vulnerabilities caused by environmental disasters can be avoided by moving. Moreover, remittances can improve people’s everyday life and health. Yet migration can also be a stressful and health-damaging event. International migrants, particularly the undocumented, can have problems accessing health care, and also experience much danger at border crossings. Transnational families can suffer emotionally as well as physically due to separation. Findings from the survey show that family members of migrants do not rate their physical health as good as often as non-migrating families.Conclusions: The Nicaraguan population is not guaranteed its social rights of citizenship. This results in mobile livelihoods and the need for translocal social support (e.g. remittances). Migration can have both positive and negative effects on health for migrants and their family members; geographical distance and social differences are key to the outcome.

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‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Gustafsson

2018

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“…Even when husband, wife, and children would be permanently present, extended family members are often intimately involved in a household's livelihood strategies ( see also Fonseca, ; on urban Brasil and Leinaweaver, on the Andes). Despite this complexity, young parents in Muy Muy also consider the nuclear unit, consisting of a couple with children, an ideal to strive after in their quest for improved well‐being ( see also Steel, Winters, and Sosa, ), making it a meaningful reference point for the research participants.…”

Section: Family Life In Muy Muy: Migration Coordination and Stratifmentioning

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Responsibility, Mobility, and Power: Translocal Carework Negotiations of Nicaraguan Families

Winters

2014

International Migration Review

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Recently, carework has emerged as a key area for exploring the gendered connections between migrants and their families “home,” providing insight into family‐level consequences of migration. However, the way carework shapes migration itself has not received due attention. Based on field research among Nicaraguan migrant families, this article explores the links between translocal carework and family migration decision‐making by connecting the concepts of transnational caregiving and power‐geometry of mobility to interpret fathers’ and female relatives’ carework involvement. In conclusion, the article highlights how translocal carework shapes family members’ access to mobility through ongoing negotiations of a wide range of responsibilities, indicating a possible direction for future explorations of migration.

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“…Rican central valley investment and migration, Nicaraguan migration, and local governments, business owners and communities came together and produced a residential tourism boom, thereby converting the coast into a transnational space (Torres & Momsen, 2005). This was not an automatic and uninterrupted flow of simple capitalist forces: structural factors, historical circumstances and purposive action brought the three flows into Guanacaste and made for a complex and diverse development.…”

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“…On the other hand, the residential tourism industry also provides opportunities in other sectors such as domestic work, restaurants, security and in retailing. These are often carried out by permanent migrants, who often have their families established in Costa Rica (see also Steel, Winters and Sosa, 2011, in this collection).…”

Section: The Nicaragua -Guanacaste Corridormentioning

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“…Torres and Momsen (2005) argue that an international tourism resort such as Cancún can best be analysed as a 'transnational space'. Hence they analyse the effects of Cancún's tourism development not only in terms of local socio-spatial effects, but also in terms of its connections to different areas through production-related and consumption-related migration flows.…”

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A transnational networked space: tracing residential tourism and its multi-local implications in Costa Rica

Noorloos

2011

International Development Planning Review

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The complexity of recent residential tourism growth on Costa Rica's coasts calls for new approaches that address this phenomenon and its implications in a more mobile and trans-local way. In this article one growing residential tourism destination is analysed as a transnational networked space. The focus is on three flows or corridors which have enabled the growth of residential tourism and through which its implications spread in space. These flows of people and investment from North America, Nicaragua and central Costa Rica have not been established automatically: they build on a history and have been reinforced. This does not mean that local groups are left without opportunities; however, some of them increasingly experience a disconnection from mainstream national development.

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Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Responsibility, Mobility, and Power: Translocal Carework Negotiations of Nicaraguan Families

A transnational networked space: tracing residential tourism and its multi-local implications in Costa Rica

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