Venezuelan immigration and its impact on Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

Venezuelan emigration to Latin America and the Caribbean constitutes the most important and voluminous migratory phenomenon in the last six decades. To do this, we approach its analysis with the most recent data, noting its evolution, its difficulties and the challenges it poses for the recipient countries of the great Latin America region. We indicate the countries that have received this immigration, the reasons that determine this emigration, as well as the educational and work profile. We consider that the socio-economic needs are added as the circumstances of lack of freedom, so for many it is an exile. Many emigrants from different Latin American countries from different times are grateful for the welcome they had at the time from Venezuela. Now the recipient countries are trying to return that generous gesture: but the situation has been changing in the last five years. To what was at first a welcome without major limitations, lately restrictions have been imposed. In addition, scenes of rejection close to xenophobia that have emerged in recent years are identified both at an institutional and political level, as well as in daily coexistence. However, in the end, a significant reception effort seems to prevail on the part of the receiving
countries and integration on the part of these immigrants.