| Abstract: | Nicaraguan immigration to Costa Rica is a major case of South–South migration in Latin America. This chapter explores a set of examples of analyses of critical interventions – regarding immigration law, social imaginaries around which representations of Nicaraguans are framed, and participatory work carried out with impoverished communities – in order to reflect on the ways in which social sciences in Costa Rica attempts to intervene both in the everyday hostility of Costa Rican society and in the ways in which Nicaraguans contest that hostility. Responding to Michael Burawoy's (2005 Burawoy, Michael 2005 ‘For public sociology’, American Sociological Review, vol. 70, pp. 4–28. doi:10.1177/000312240507000102Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar], 2007) call for a ‘public sociology’, the chapter reflects on how debates around public social sciences could enrich the political, institutional and conceptual location of migration studies in Costa Rica. |
