With international aid, IOM and UNHCR -which have their regional headquarters in Panama- seek support organizations and institutions that work on the ground with Venezuelan migrants to facilitate the regularization and social and economic integration of migrants in host countries.
Venezuelan migration is “the largest human exodus in the history of Latin America” and “it has been getting worse for almost five years,” Eduardo Stein, UNHCR and IOM’s special representative for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela, told the French agency.
Currently, there are an estimated six million Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the world.
Of these, about five million are in Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
According to Stein, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the situation worsened and by the end of 2022 it is expected that there will be 7.1 million Venezuelan migrants, of which 6.1 million would be in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“As long as Venezuelans continue to move through the region, both for themselves and, above all, for the host communities, that support remains essential so that they can rebuild their lives with dignity,” Stein added.
In addition to seeking the insertion of migrants, the plan aims to invest resources in host countries to avoid hypothetical explosions of xenophobia towards Venezuelan migration in the midst of a pandemic.
“We cannot ignore that conditions worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic, both for the local population, in several countries, and for the migrant population,” Stein said.
The challenge is to find “how to access decent livelihoods that are sustainable and do not intrude on host communities in a way that generates animosity towards newcomers, hence the strategic importance that support reaches host communities”, added.
Source From: Ambito
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