POLICY MAKING ON MIGRATION THE COSTA RICAN EXPERIENCE
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POLICY MAKING ON MIGRATION THE COSTA RICAN EXPERIENCE Luis Alonso Serrano Echeverría Head of the Planning Department General Direction of Migration & Alien Affairs Republic of Costa Rica
Map: International Migrations in Central America Source: FLACSO
2 Components of Migratory Policy • CONTROL • INTEGRATION
Control = Integration = Control
To be considered. . . • Transformation of the migration management model: establishing a migratory system that will enable the legal integration of migrants through their contribution to the sustainability of public services and through their participation in social work at community level.
The Costa Rican Consensus Seeks to reorient or reformulate the existing schemes that regulate official assistance for development [OAD]. Seeks to create incentives for developing countries that invest ethically but still have unfinished work and face challenges that –in democracy and with democracy– cannot be overcome by the countries themselves.
Costa Rican Consensus: Migration Seeks the support of developed countries to strengthen the public services (mainly health and education) of developing countries which, in turn, receive migrants and refugees and are respectful of Human Rights and international standards for the protection of human dignity.
Costa Rica seeks: Costa Rica seeks and bets on the integration of migrants. Legalization is parallel to the contribution to the sustainability of the public services. Migration seen as a phenomenon, not as a problem.
El fenómeno migratorio es “un desafío mucho más amplio y mucho más complejo que una reforma migratoria. Una verdadera política de migración, tiene que empezar por ser una verdadera política de bienestar social, (…) es urgente que los países adopten políticas sociales intensas y universales, (…) es urgente que cada país, a lo interno de sus sociedades, combata las causas de la exclusión social y económica que crónicamente padecen los migrantes. ” Dr. Óscar Arias Sánchez
Thank you! Merci Beaucoup! ¡Muchas gracias!
