Abstract:This ethnographic case study explores Nicaragua-Costa Rica cross-border dynamics, one of the most important South-South migration flows in the Central American region. I identify practices that prevent Nicaraguan children in a Costa Rican classroom from consolidating transnational identities and networks during the school day. Specifically, I examine three types of disruptionshistorical, social, and linguistic-as well as various ways in which students and teachers contest those disruptions.
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