Abstract.
In recent decades there has been an increase of the amount of people from different countries from Africa who are transiting the American continent to reach the United States and Canada. Particularly in Costa Rica, since 2014 the presence of these migrations in transit has been more visible, which has produced different institutional responses to control and accompany their transit through the country. This article aims to make visible and problematize some of the main challenges present in the institutional attention to African migrations in transit in Costa Rica. Various interviews were conducted with officials in the area of migration (both from state institutions and international organizations) who have worked with this flow of migrants in the country.. Rather than going into depth on the public policies that permeate this migratory transit, the focus of the article is analyzing the concerns, tensions and contradictions present in the daily attention of this migration and also suggests practices that could strengthen more hospitable horizons with Africans in the country.
Keywords:
Costa Rica; Africa; migration in transit; institutionality