La incidencia de la pandemia de Covid-19 en las condiciones de vida de los migrantes venezolanos hacia Colombia y el discurso aporofóbico

Translated title of the contribution: The incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the living conditions of Venezuelan migrants to Colombia and the aporophobic discourse

Héctor Olasolo, Mario Urueña-Sánchez, María Paula López Velásquez

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Abstract

This article aims to verify that the Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced discriminatory attitudes and social rejection by a significant part of the Colombian population towards low-income Venezuelan migrants and has contributed to the implementation by the Colombian government of a migration policy that (i) has abruptly stopped the flow of this segment of the migrant population into Colombia, (ii) has further restricted their access to services and fundamental rights in Colombian territory; and (iii) has contributed to the development of an aporophobic discourse in the country. The conceptual reference to address this hypothesis is the term aporophobia. A term whose longevity is not very wide, but which allows to frame the matrix of understanding of this phenomenon with sufficiency. The methodology chosen to operationalize this research is based on the quantifiable qualitative method in which the data collected by other sources are used by the authors to interpret the behavior of the object of study.

Translated title of the contributionThe incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the living conditions of Venezuelan migrants to Colombia and the aporophobic discourse
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalIzquierdas
Issue number51
StatePublished - 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • History
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

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