Venezuelan Migration : The Evidence of a Major Catastrophe

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Migration has been always part of the human history. We all has migrated or move from one place to another, and this should never be considered a problem, if the proportion of population that moves is not numerically significant that could shift the balance of population in a society.
In the case of Venezuelan migration, it has been a gradually distinguished process that correspond with the structural factors at the origin, highly determined by political violence, criminal violence, persecution, progressive destruction of the formal economy and liberal market and imposition of an autocratic and repressive militarist model in the country.
We passed from a sustain emigration of Venezuelan’s Highly skilled professionals (2000-2009), follows by youngest university professional, without a future (2009-2015), to a massive exodus of Venezuelan, walking and crossing the Colombian border bridge San Antonio-Cucuta and continuing to the rest of south American countries, exhausting any means. (since 2015)
The recent exodus it’s leaving behind the poverty, the malnutrition and hunger, the hyperinflation, the humanitarian crisis, the lack of medication, the epidemies, the not electricity and water, the persecution and horror.
The panel aims to incorporated approaches that will refers to quantification of process, differentiating, by countries of destination.
We will also cover the regional implications, and the different policies in terms of regularization e integration of the migrant Venezuelan population
Finally, we will explore two contrasting facts, remittances under an autocratic regime, and the possibility of a progressive return in the case of a political change for Venezuela.

Sub Track

• Migration, Displacements, Diasporas

Session Organizer

• Magaly Sanchez-R, Princeton University

Chair

• Jose Manuel Puente, IESA

Discussant

• Raul A Sanchez Urribarri, La Trobe University

Individual Presentations

• Éxodo global de venezolanos sin re-conexión. La mayor Pérdida de capital intelectual en el Siglo XXI - Iván M De la Vega H.

• La intención de emigración de estudiantes universitarios. Estudio comparado en universidades venezolanas. Período 2010-2018 - Claudia F F Vargas Ribas

• Migration reception in the Americas: Comparing Colombian and Venezuelan migration to neighboring countries and the political and social responses they receive - Jeffrey D Pugh, University of Massachusetts-Boston

• High Skilled Educated Venezuelans in United States - Magaly Sanchez-R, Princeton University

• Colapso Economico Venezolano y proceso de Migracion - Jose Manuel Puente, IESA