Author: Tanisha N. Jones
Photo credit: UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency/Roberto Carlos Sanchez
An unskilled worker earns more than $95 in six days working at Costa Rica’s minimum wage, compared to $95 a month at the current Nicaraguan minimum wage. According to the International Organization for Migration and the CIA World Factbook, between 350,000 and 500,000 Nicaraguans live in Costa Rica, both legally and illegally. In 2021 according to UNHCR data, Costa Rica had the fourth highest number of new asylum seeker applications behind the United States, Mexico and Germany, at 108,400. With an increase in migrants due to recent political instability, Costa Rica and the United States have jointly announced the establishment of a migration center managed by the United States in San Jose, Costa Rica. This center will specifically process asylum applications from Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants. The primary goal of the migration center is to facilitate access to lawful pathways of entry into the United States and other countries.
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