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Flexible Families - Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica (Hardcover)
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Flexible Families - Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica (Hardcover)
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Flexible Families examines the struggles among Nicaraguan migrants
in Costa Rica (and their families back in Nicaragua) to maintain a
sense of family across borders. The book is based on more than
twenty-four months of ethnographic fieldwork in Costa Rica and
Nicaragua (2009-2012) and more than ten years of engagement with
Nicaraguan migrant communities. Author Caitlin Fouratt finds that
migration and family intersect as sites for triaging inequality,
economic crisis, and a lack of state-provided social services since
the 1990s. Flexible Families situates transnational families in an
analysis of the history of unstable family life in Nicaragua due to
decades of war and economic crisis, rather than in the migration
process itself, which is often blamed for family breakdown in
public discourse. Fouratt argues that the kinds of family
configurations often seen as problematic consequences of
migration-specifically single mothers, absent fathers, and
grandmother caregivers-represent flexible family configurations
that have enabled Nicaraguan families to survive the chronic crises
of the past decades. By examining the work that goes into forging
and sustaining transnational kinship, the book argues for a
rethinking of national belonging and discourses of solidarity. In
parallel, the book critically examines conditions in Costa Rica,
especially the ways in which the instabilities and inequalities
that have haunted the rest of the region have begun to take shape
there, resulting in perceptions of increased crime rates and a
declining quality of life. By linking this crisis of Costa Rican
exceptionalism to recent immigration reform, the book also builds
on scholarship about the production and experiences of immigrant
exclusion. Flexible Families offers insight into the impacts of
increasingly restrictive immigration policies in the everyday lives
of transnational families within the developing world.
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