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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
 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!