Espacio trsnacional e identidad de los Ticos entre "Arriba" y "Abajo"

Abstract

Transnational space and Costa Rican identities between “Up” and “Down”. This paper shows the results of a research in the field of the dynamic construction of the transnational space formed by immigrants, immigrants coming back and their families and communities in Los Santos y Perez Zeledon in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Bound Brook in New Jersey. The results threw some data about the neoliberal reorganization in the transnational spaces that explain the process of neoliberal reorganization under the globalization, new relationships between State-Nation and the civil society, the way the social classes are shaped in the transnational space, the political role of the subjectivity and the transnational Costa Rican communities that haven’t been studied under the perspective of the transnationalism. For this article, we use the theories of Pierre Bourdieu talking about the symbolic capitalism, of Michel Foucault about governmentality, and of James Scott about the transcriptions of hidden and public texts. KEY WORDS: immigration, transnationalism, globalization, rural population.