Exemplary or Deficient? Costa Rica’s Refugee Response System and the Unprecedented Refugee Crisis
Exemplary or Deficient? Costa Rica’s Refugee Response System and the Unprecedented Refugee Crisis

Author(s): Daniel Alvarado, Koen Voorend
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Exemplary; Deficient; Costa Rica’s; Refugee Response System; Unprecedented Refugee Crisis; Refugee;
Summary/Abstract: Costa Rica is one of Latin America’s most important refugee destination, together with much larger countries Ecuador and Mexico (UNHCR, 2019; Barquero, 2017). Its image as a peaceful country, with a stable economy, and the fact that it has signed most international treaties of refugee protection, have positioned Costa Rica as an attractive destination for many Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, Colombians, and other Central American refugee applicants (CONAMAJ, 2017; UNHCR, 2012a). As such, the country has been a constant recipient of refugees over the last three decades (DGME, 2021; Nassar and Benavides, 2019), and it is considered a strategic geopolitical country in refuge matters.

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