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Affectations of the Venezuelan
migration to the inhabitants Duvan Andrey Cortes Álvarez
of the municipality of Villa de Leyva-Boyacá duvancrtes24@gmail.com
during the quarantine. Languages Department,
Dulce Corazón de Maria School.
Villa de Leyva-Boyacá

Abstract have been in difficulties, due to the fact that their informal jobs
have closed for cause of the coronavirus outbreak, which has
The project "Affectations of the Venezuelan Migration to the forced social distancing and quarantine in the host nation ”
inhabitants of the municipality of Villa de Leyva-Boyacá during (Voanoticias, 2020).
quarantine" had the objective of knowing the main factors that
have been affected by Venezuelan migration in a quarantine During quarantine or mandatory preventive social isolation due
period, in order to respond to the main concerns that arise in the to COVID 19, the research project becomes more interesting
municipality of Villa de Leyva regarding this situation. To because of the fact that Venezuelan migrants are engaged in
develop the project, five workshops were designed for a defined during this great crisis, however, several media have reported on
population of 8 Venezuelan migrants, and it was carried out in a the situation. criticizes the one that they face and for this reason
qualitative-descriptive research. Taking into account the results a great majority has had to return to Venezuela, but another
obtained from the application of the workshops the most large part continues without the possibility of returning to their
relevant finding is that most of the Venezuelan migrants who native country, they find themselves without job opportunities
participated in the study agree that Venezuelan migration was that help them cope with the current situation for which
caused by the crisis in their country, and finding in Colombia Everybody goes by and some who have a job offer have been
several obstacles such as the lack of job opportunities that seriously affected because they have lowered their hours and
stabilized the difficult situation economic they pass. wages are not the same. Venezuelan migration is an aspect of
Key Words: Migration, Venezuela, Crisis, Colombia. great interest and that it must be analyzed from different
aspects, which is why this zresearch focused on identifying the
Resumen labor affectations that Venezuelan migrants have had especially
in this crisis due to the coronavirus.
El proyecto "Afectaciones de la migración venezolana a los
habitantes del municipio de Villa de Leyva-Boyacá durante la Materials and Methods
cuarentena", tuvo como objetivo conocer los principales factores
que han sido afectados por la migración venezolana en un The research is contextualized in the municipality of Villa de
período de cuarentena, con el fin de dar respuesta a las Leyva-Boyacá, having as main participants 8 Venezuelan
principales preocupaciones que surgen en el municipio de Villa migrants chosen through a simple randomly, since the only
de Leyva con respecto a esta situación, para desarrollar este condition for the participants to be chosen to carry out the
proyecto fue necesario planificar cinco actividades para una research project was that in in recent years they would have
población definida de 8 migrantes venezolanos y fue realizada migrated from Venezuela. In sequence, the research was
como una investigación cualitativo-descriptiva. qualitative-descriptive, this in order to analyze and explain each
Teniendo en cuenta los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación de of the factors found in the results of each activity planned and
cada taller el aspecto más relevante es que la mayoría de los carried out for the migrants, finding the following as the main
migrantes venezolanos que participaron del estudio coinciden factors affected: work, economic, family and social.
en que la migración venezolana fue provocada por la crisis en su
país, y encontraron en Colombia varios obstáculos como la falta
de oportunidades laborales que estabilizaron la difícil situación
económica que pasan.
Palabras clave: Migración, Venezuela, Crisis, Colombia.

Introduction

According to Migration Colombia figures published on August 1,
there are currently 1,408,055 Venezuelan immigrants in the
country, an increase of 11% compared to the first quarter of
2019. In the last six months, 234,000 more Venezuelans have
arrived in Colombia “seeking to flee from Maduro regime, “said
Colombian Migration Director Christian Krüger Sarmiento in a
statement (CNN, 2019).
The situation of Venezuelan migration not only harms the
country's employment rates, but also social, economic, cultural
and even educational aspects; It is worth mentioning that this
situation involves adults, children, adolescents, older adults, etc.
..., and joining a new country with different customs and
problems is not only difficult for immigrants but also for
Colombians who must engage in difficult circumstances, due to
the alteration of the aforementioned aspects.

However, the difficulties of migrating to a new country and with
all the aforementioned consequences, currently also show that
“Venezuelan migrants in an irregular situation in the country 4