The Politics of Generosity. Colombian Official Discourse towards Migration from Venezuela, 2015-2018

Palma-Gutiérrez, Mauricio

doi:10.7440/colombiaint106.2021.02

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“…They are found in many other societies, both in industrialised nations and those in the Global South (Brosius et al, 2019; Brouwer et al, 2017; Giardina and Márquez Lepe, 2021). Venezuelan diaspora in Colombia is no different, and there too the media has contributed to determine public views on immigrants (Ordóñez and Arcos, 2019; Palma‐Gutiérrez, 2021; Perilla, 2020; Taborda Burgo et al, 2021). As the literature available suggests, social class and economic status often set media representations of these groups.…”

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Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election

Páez Moreno,

Lugo‐ocando,

Garzón

2024

Bull Latin American Res

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This article examines how the Venezuelan diaspora has been portrayed in the media during the Colombian presidential election of 2022 and how it has influenced voters' preferences there. It examines presidential debates and conversations on X (formerly Twitter), as well as traditional legacy media and digital natives' media material. The authors used a population‐based sample of 17,372 articles on the 2022 elections to analyse data from a stratified sample. Our findings point to a potential socio‐political turning point away from the social imaginary that had been equating Venezuelan realities with leftist ideologies in Colombia and other parts of Latin America.

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Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election

Páez Moreno,

Lugo‐ocando,

Garzón

2024

Bull Latin American Res

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“…Further, insightful analyses by Bahar and Palma Gutiérez address the aims and effectiveness of Colombian government programs to promote various aspects of human security for refugees (Bahar, Ibáñez, and Rozo 2021). Palma-Gutiérrez (2021), Del Real (2022), and Castro Franco (2021) have made crucial contributions regarding the early phases of regularization programs for refugees, especially with regard to their precarity and nuances. Ordoñez (2019), among others, has analyzed the effectiveness of, and need for, regional political responses to Venezuelan migration in relation to managing illnesses such as refugee settlement and government regulatory practices (pp.…”

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“… 18 Beyond the works already listed, for a further critical discussion of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, see: Castro Franco (2020, 2021), Palma-Gutiérrez (2021, 29–555). …”

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Power, Mobility, and Space: Human Security for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia

Rochlin

2023

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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The near collapse of the Venezuelan economy since 2015 and the concomitant erosion of public order have led to an exodus of over seven million people by mid-2023, the largest forced migrant flow in recent Latin American history and the second largest globally after Syria. It occurs against a global backdrop of a 400 percent increase in persons displaced across borders between 2010 and 2021. Colombia hosts the largest number of Venezuelan refugees — with about 2.5 million officially recorded by the government. This has occurred during a politically tumultuous period in Colombia, which has featured the reconfiguration of competing illegal armed groups since the signing of the 2016 Peace Accord between the government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020–2021, and a crippling and protracted national strike in 2021. Within the hemispheric context, Colombia serves as a stop-gap to stem the flow of Venezuelan refugees northward, roughly similar to the role played by Mexico to intercept and diminish migration to the United States. This has especially been the case since the January 5, 2023 announcement by US President Biden, which specified that refugees cannot declare asylum in the US if they attempt to cross the US border without first seeking asylum in their initial transit country. For Venezuelan refugees, the first country they enter is typically Colombia. Further, in May 2023, the Biden administration announced it was considering sending US troops to the Darien Peninsula in Panama, and will perhaps train Colombian forces, to diminish the “trafficking” of Venezuelan refugees and other refugees passing through Colombia and headed north. The result, according to leaders of NGOs and other who work directly with refugees, has been more pressure on Colombia to retain them. The argument here is twofold. First, human security threats for Venezuelan refugees should be viewed intersectionally in the particular spaces through which they pass — from the collapse of order in their home countries (which qualifies them as refugees), through the borderlands with Colombia that pose specific threats to their safety and wellbeing, and to their destinations within Colombia that offer their own peculiar array of opportunities and human security challenges. Second, regularization programs such as the Estatuto Temporal de Protección de Migrantes Venezolanos (ETPMV) are the best way to promote human security for refugees in Colombia in the short and medium terms, but this process needs to be more inclusive.1 The first half of this paper discusses the conceptual underpinnings that link power/mobility/space to human security for refugees. The second part brings those concepts to life through interviews with an assortment of refugees. The paper draws from a database of interviews with 72 Venezuelan refugees in Colombia in 2022 and 2023 regarding the intersectional nuances of human security. It also relies on interviews with dozens of security, migration, and human rights experts in Colombia since 1997. A unique conceptual perspective is developed regarding critical human security for Venezuelan refugees.

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“…Given that Colombia, due to its large common border area, has been the main recipient of Venezuelan migrants, there has been an increase in studies on the policy responses adopted by Bogota with respect to the phenomenon. In this context, both militaristic [8] and more critical responses focused on poststructural approaches have been proposed [9]. The International Labor Organization (ILO) together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have even proposed strategies to guarantee the labor rights of Venezuelan migrants arriving in Colombia [10], as well as in other countries of the region.…”

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Estimating the Incidence of Venezuelan Migration and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Urban Growth in Colombia

Silva Barbosa,

Peña-Galindo,

Sampayo

et al. 2023

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This study investigates the intricate relationship between Venezuelan migration and urban growth in Colombia from 2018 to 2021. The study employs remote sensing data and social network metrics to uncover migration patterns and their impact on urban expansion. The methodology consists of three stages. Firstly, nighttime satellite imagery is used to analyze year-over-year urban growth in Colombia. Secondly, social network data estimates Venezuelan migration, overcoming challenges of underreporting and informal border crossings. Lastly, an econometric analysis explores the quantitative link between Venezuelan migration and urban growth, integrating socioeconomic variables to address endogeneity. The findings reveal the complex interplay of Venezuelan migration, socioeconomic factors, and urban growth. The study outlines remote sensing analysis, introducing the Anthropogenic Footprint Expansion Index (AFEI) to quantify urban growth. Facebook API data estimates migration trends and explores socioeconomic impacts on urban expansion. The analysis uncovers migration, poverty, aging, and urban population proportion as key factors affecting Colombia's urban landscape. Furthermore, the research underscores how Venezuelan migration affected short-term urban expansion pre- and post-COVID-19. Migration had a notable effect before the pandemic, but this influence waned afterward. The study highlights migration's short-term nature and emphasizes age demographics' role in medium-term dynamics.

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The Politics of Generosity. Colombian Official Discourse towards Migration from Venezuela, 2015-2018

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election

Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election

Power, Mobility, and Space: Human Security for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia

Estimating the Incidence of Venezuelan Migration and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Urban Growth in Colombia

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