From Chile to Peru, the difficult integration of Venezuelan migrants
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Demonstration against Venezuelan refugees in Iquique (Chile), September 25, 2021. REUTERS - STRINGER
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
21 mins
More than 5.5 million Venezuelans have been forced into exile in recent years in the face of the scale of the economic crisis affecting their country.
Venezuelans are among the most uprooted populations in the world.
And their integration is a challenge for the neighboring countries where they have taken refuge.
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Chilean justice opens an investigation after violence committed on Saturday, September 25, 2021, in the north of the country, on the sidelines of a demonstration against the presence of illegal migrants from Venezuela.
3,000 people marched amid Chilean flags in the city of Iquique.
Scuffles erupted when demonstrators attacked Venezuelan migrants living on the streets.
Tents, bags and mattresses in a deserted camp were set on fire.
A total of 400,000 Venezuelans, a figure which could be higher, are present in Chile today.
In Peru, the Venezuelan economic windfall ignored
Among the more than 5 million Venezuelans forced into exile, 1.2 million according to ACNUR (the United Nations Agency for Refugees) have found refuge in Peru.
90% of them fell into poverty at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Peru lacks qualified professionals: engineers, doctors, teachers.
However, more than 40% of the Venezuelan population in the country has a higher education qualification.
Despite the Covid, according to a recent study, Venezuelan migration brought in $ 35 million in Peru in 2020. This is a file by
Wyloene Munhoz-Boillot.
Deportation of Haitian migrants: Ariel Henry responds to Washington
In barely a week, from Sunday September 19 to 26, 2021, 32 planes were chartered for Haiti by the United States migration services. Two-thirds landed on the tarmac in Port-au-Prince and 10 arrived in Cap-Haitien. On Saturday September 25, 2021, at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Ariel Henry diplomatically tackled the Biden administration:
"Without wanting to contest the right of a sovereign state to control the accession of foreigners to its territory or to send back to their country of origin those who enter it illegally, we believe that many now prosperous countries were built by successive waves of migrants and refugees ”
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