Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands

Pinzón, Viviana García; Mantilla, Jorge

doi:10.1007/s12117-020-09399-3

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“…Illegal armed groups controlling borderlands and urban territories in Colombia represent a myriad of dangers for women across migration phases [27,45]. Gender inequality is strongly associated with increased HR for both men and women [46].…”

Section: Homicide Rates (Hr) and Hiv Risk For Migrant/refugee Women I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The impact of social violence on HIV risk for women in Colombia: A concurrent mixed methods study

Correa-Salazar

Braverman-Bronstein²,

Bilal³

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Gender, violence, and migration structurally impact health. The Venezuelan humanitarian crisis comprises the largest transnational migration in the history of the Americas. Colombia, a post-conflict country, is the primary recipient of Venezuelans. The Colombian context imposes high levels of violence on women across migration phases. There is little information on the relationship between violence and HIV risk in the region and how it impacts these groups. Evidence on how to approach the HIV response related to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is lacking. Our study seeks to 1) understand how violence is associated with newly reported HIV/AIDS case rates for women in Colombian municipalities; and 2) describe how social violence impacts HIV risk, treatment, and prevention for Venezuelan migrant and refugee women undergoing transnational migration and resettlement in Colombia. We conducted a concurrent mixed-methods design. We used negative binomial models to explore associations between social violence proxied by Homicide Rates (HR) at the municipality level (n = 84). The also conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with Venezuelan migrant and refugee women and key informants in two Colombian cities to expand and describe contextual vulnerabilities to HIV risk, prevention and care related to violence. We found that newly reported HIV cases in women were 25% higher for every increase of 18 homicides per 100,000, after adjusting for covariates. Upon resettlement, participants cited armed actors’ control, lack of government accountability, gender-based violence and stigmatization of HIV as sources of increased HIV risk for VMRW. These factors impose barriers to testing, treatment and care. Social violence in Colombian municipalities is associated with an increase in newly reported HIV/AIDS case rates in women. Violence hinders Venezuelan migrant and refugee women’s access and engagement in available HIV prevention and treatment interventions.

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Section: Homicide Rates (Hr) and Hiv Risk For Migrant/refugee Women I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Colombia is the primary recipient of Venezuelan migrants and refugees [25], who mainly relocate to large urban centers [26]. The Colombian post-armed conflict context imposes extremely high levels of violence on women [27].…”

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The impact of social violence on HIV risk for women in Colombia: A concurrent mixed methods study

Correa-Salazar

Braverman-Bronstein²,

Bilal³

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…Once we look more closely, however, this appears to be part of a larger discursive effort on the part of the Colombian government against its Venezuelan nemesis started before the pandemic. In any case, the move seems to be related to a rhetoric that identifies a specific foreign threat as an essential national security concern, something that has been driving the current administration's foreign policy (García Pinzón, Mantilla, 2020).…”

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A Transitory Settlement on the Way back to Venezuela: A Tale of Vulnerability, Exception, and Migrant Resistance in times of Covid-19

Palma-Gutiérrez

2021

REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum.

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Due to the economic and social consequences of the Covid-19 emergency of 2020, many vulnerable Venezuelan migrants scattered across South America decided to return to their country overland. Simultaneously, exceptional measures imposed during the pandemic resulted in increased domestic and international political constraints to their mobility. Different strategies to resist and overcome such restrictions emerged in this scenario. Drawing upon the concept of Temporary Migrant Multiplicities (Tazzioli, 2020), I analyse how to camp became one of those collective strategies. I present the results of a digital ethnography focusing on a transitory settlement built (and later abandoned) by some 500 persons returning to Venezuela, between May and July 2020 in the outskirts of Bogotá (Colombia). I thereby explore how vulnerabilities can turn into vehicles of resistance in contexts of arbitrary control over precarised human mobility, such as Covid-19 exceptional politics.

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“…The inability of the precarious Venezuelan healthcare service to meet the acutely increased needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, impelled almost a doubling in the number of Venezuelans crossing to neighboring countries, particularly Brazil and Colombia (Daniels 2020;Standley et al 2020). In fact, compared to the nearly 800.000 Venezuelans that migrated to Colombia in 2017, almost 1.5 million Venezuelans crossed the border as a result of the current pandemic (Fernández-Niño et al 2020;García Pinzón and Mantilla 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

SARS-CoV-2 in Transit: Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes From Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

Patiño¹,

Ballesteros²,

Muñoz³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

The impact of social violence on HIV risk for women in Colombia: A concurrent mixed methods study

The impact of social violence on HIV risk for women in Colombia: A concurrent mixed methods study

A Transitory Settlement on the Way back to Venezuela: A Tale of Vulnerability, Exception, and Migrant Resistance in times of Covid-19

SARS-CoV-2 in Transit: Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes From Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

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