C E Fouratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 33163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C E Fouratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | C E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fouratt |
| SIGNATURE | FOURATT C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1331-3738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
At a crossroads
This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean migrants through the region en route North, to dramatic increases in forced migration within Latin Ameri…
Pobrecitos
This article examines how Costa Rica's asylum process enacts bureaucratic bordering, shaping refugee deservingness through intertwined logics of security and humanitarianism. Based on fieldwork from 2016 to 2022, the analysis focuses on two areas: daily interactions between asylum officials and applicants, and the bureaucratic practices in humanitarian aid distribution. The first case analyzes a form of micro-level bureaucratic bordering in the w…
Undeserving and Undesirable
Since 2014, Costa Rica has faced a 'migration crisis' tied to the arrival of new asylum seekers from El Salvador, Venezuela and Colombia and transit migrants from Africa, Haiti and Cuba. This article examines representations of these groups through a qualitative analysis of newspaper coverage (2011-2017). Representations of these groups build on existing threat narratives to position transit migrants and asylum seekers as inherently dangerous, un…
Telling Migration Stories
This commentary shares an assignment on family migration stories from an upper-division undergraduate course on global migration. The assignment, which asks students to interview each other about their family migration histories and then analyze their partner’s story, requires students to apply course readings to the real-world context of their peers’ experiences. The commentary provides an overview of the assignment and challenges students encou…
Esquivando al Estado. Prácticas privadas en el uso de los servicios de salud entre inmigrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica
Este artículo evalúa críticamente la relación entre la población migrante y el Estado, en particular la política social pública, tanto en el país de origen como en el país receptor. Se analiza la medida en que las familias migrantes nicaragüenses incorporan la protección social pública en sus estrategias de bienestar a ambos lados del sistema migratorio, Costa Rica-Nicaragua. Basados en dos grupos de datos cualitativos, se encontró que, en ambos …
What Can We Do for DREAMers
Sidestepping the State
In Costa Rica, there is a widespread belief among the public and policymakers that the country's 'exceptional' universal healthcare system represents a magnet for Nicaraguan immigrants. However, examining immigrants' actual access to social policy demonstrates the importance of legal and extra-legal mechanisms of exclusion that go hand in hand with official recognition of human rights. This paper critically assesses the relationship between migra…
Love for the Land
Despite renewed interest in Central American migration, little attention has been devoted to understanding the diversity of migration pathways within the region. This article explores the tensions in the complicated connections between migration, land, consumption, and love in the case of migration between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations with members of transnational families in Achuapa, Nicaragua, and …
Temporary Measures
This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the temporal aspects of illegality produced by immigration law. Two sets of temporary measures highlight the temporality of both law and illegality. First, frequent legal reform, temporary immigration measures, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration administration create a sense of Costa Rican immigration law as temporary. The ongoing temporary ch…
Those who come to do harm”
This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Costa Rican immigration law and subsequent immigration reform process and resulting 2010 law through an analysis of two rival framings of immigration in Costa Rica. First, I examine how the rushed nature of the 2006 law constructed a crisis in which migrants, particularly Nicaraguans, represented urgent threats to national security. Next, I examine the …
Those who come to do harm”
This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Costa Rican immigration law and subsequent immigration reform process and resulting 2010 law through an analysis of two rival framings of immigration in Costa Rica. First, I examine how the rushed nature of the 2006 law constructed a crisis in which migrants, particularly Nicaraguans, represented urgent threats to national security. Next, I examine the …
Temporary Measures
This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the temporal aspects of illegality produced by immigration law. Two sets of temporary measures highlight the temporality of both law and illegality. First, frequent legal reform, temporary immigration measures, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration administration create a sense of Costa Rican immigration law as temporary. The ongoing temporary ch…
Undeserving and Undesirable
Since 2014, Costa Rica has faced a 'migration crisis' tied to the arrival of new asylum seekers from El Salvador, Venezuela and Colombia and transit migrants from Africa, Haiti and Cuba. This article examines representations of these groups through a qualitative analysis of newspaper coverage (2011-2017). Representations of these groups build on existing threat narratives to position transit migrants and asylum seekers as inherently dangerous, un…
Sidestepping the State
In Costa Rica, there is a widespread belief among the public and policymakers that the country's 'exceptional' universal healthcare system represents a magnet for Nicaraguan immigrants. However, examining immigrants' actual access to social policy demonstrates the importance of legal and extra-legal mechanisms of exclusion that go hand in hand with official recognition of human rights. This paper critically assesses the relationship between migra…
Those who come to do harm”
This article examines the political rationales at work behind the particularly repressive 2006 Costa Rican immigration law and subsequent immigration reform process and resulting 2010 law through an analysis of two rival framings of immigration in Costa Rica. First, I examine how the rushed nature of the 2006 law constructed a crisis in which migrants, particularly Nicaraguans, represented urgent threats to national security. Next, I examine the …
Temporary Measures
This article examines the everyday lives of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica to understand the temporal aspects of illegality produced by immigration law. Two sets of temporary measures highlight the temporality of both law and illegality. First, frequent legal reform, temporary immigration measures, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration administration create a sense of Costa Rican immigration law as temporary. The ongoing temporary ch…
Love for the Land
Despite renewed interest in Central American migration, little attention has been devoted to understanding the diversity of migration pathways within the region. This article explores the tensions in the complicated connections between migration, land, consumption, and love in the case of migration between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations with members of transnational families in Achuapa, Nicaragua, and …
What Can We Do for DREAMers
Sidestepping the State
In Costa Rica, there is a widespread belief among the public and policymakers that the country's 'exceptional' universal healthcare system represents a magnet for Nicaraguan immigrants. However, examining immigrants' actual access to social policy demonstrates the importance of legal and extra-legal mechanisms of exclusion that go hand in hand with official recognition of human rights. This paper critically assesses the relationship between migra…
Esquivando al Estado. Prácticas privadas en el uso de los servicios de salud entre inmigrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica
Este artículo evalúa críticamente la relación entre la población migrante y el Estado, en particular la política social pública, tanto en el país de origen como en el país receptor. Se analiza la medida en que las familias migrantes nicaragüenses incorporan la protección social pública en sus estrategias de bienestar a ambos lados del sistema migratorio, Costa Rica-Nicaragua. Basados en dos grupos de datos cualitativos, se encontró que, en ambos …
Telling Migration Stories
This commentary shares an assignment on family migration stories from an upper-division undergraduate course on global migration. The assignment, which asks students to interview each other about their family migration histories and then analyze their partner’s story, requires students to apply course readings to the real-world context of their peers’ experiences. The commentary provides an overview of the assignment and challenges students encou…
Undeserving and Undesirable
Since 2014, Costa Rica has faced a 'migration crisis' tied to the arrival of new asylum seekers from El Salvador, Venezuela and Colombia and transit migrants from Africa, Haiti and Cuba. This article examines representations of these groups through a qualitative analysis of newspaper coverage (2011-2017). Representations of these groups build on existing threat narratives to position transit migrants and asylum seekers as inherently dangerous, un…
At a crossroads
This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean migrants through the region en route North, to dramatic increases in forced migration within Latin Ameri…
Pobrecitos
This article examines how Costa Rica's asylum process enacts bureaucratic bordering, shaping refugee deservingness through intertwined logics of security and humanitarianism. Based on fieldwork from 2016 to 2022, the analysis focuses on two areas: daily interactions between asylum officials and applicants, and the bureaucratic practices in humanitarian aid distribution. The first case analyzes a form of micro-level bureaucratic bordering in the w…
Political science (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Immigration (3 works)