Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-19

Palma-Gutiérrez, Mauricio

doi:10.1080/14650045.2023.2193693

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“…The hypersexualized image of Venezuelan women which links them (often without evidence) to criminality exposes them to unsafe scenarios at home, on the migration journey and in public spaces. These dangers increase their risk of GBV and create significant obstacles to their integration (Irons, 2022;Palma-Gutierrez, 2023). This article recognizes that violence occurs on a complex multilayered continuum.…”

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“…For instance, the lack of accommodations and access to sanitary facilities has an effect on the health of women as well as exposing them to violence. Palma-Gutierrez (2023) states that many receiving countries like Colombia have been struggling with high unemployment and social unrest. As such, cities like Bogotá and Medellín have proven inhospitable to new arrivals.…”

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“…GBV often originates from the multiple forms of discrimination which they experience, but also from entrenched gender inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic which led to border closures and travel restrictions forced many women and girls onto more dangerous routes or unofficial border crossings (known as trochas) and exposed them to GBV from a variety of actors including smugglers, human traffickers, police, border guards as well as other migrants (Palma-Gutierrez, 2023). Amid rising poverty and the loss of jobs due to the pandemic, migrant women-particularly those who are undocumented often lack access to legal work and protection.…”

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“Violence Across Borders: Venezuelan Women and the Continuum of Violence in Migration and Settlement”

Obinna

2023

Feminist Criminology

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The ongoing conflict in Venezuela has created significant risks for women and girls. Conflict affected populations often face higher levels of vulnerability and risks of gender-based violence (GBV) at home, in transit and at destination countries. Venezuelan women face GBV at all stages of their journey. Due to their often-irregular or undocumented status in host countries, many women lack legal access to healthcare and work which leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and GBV. Using the continuum of violence model by Kelly (1988; 2012) as well as Menjívar & Walsh (2017; 2019), this work underscores the complex ways in which gender, nationality and legal status interact with each other to shape patterns of migration and settlement. Focusing on the two largest receiving countries in Latin America: Colombia and Peru, this work also outlines how the structural, symbolic and interpersonal nature of GBV crosses borders amid the challenges of conflict, displacement and xenophobia.

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“Violence Across Borders: Venezuelan Women and the Continuum of Violence in Migration and Settlement”

Obinna

2023

Feminist Criminology

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“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador

Bonilla Mena

2024

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The pandemic exacerbated the already inequitable conditions to which Venezuelan migrants are exposed in Latin America. Influenced by global policies of public health control, the Ecuadorian government imposed numerous constraints on internal and external mobilities to reinforce its restrictive shift of at least the past decade, thereby limiting migrant regularization and curtailing the guarantee of the right to seek refuge. In line with Hyndman and Giles’ concepts of the embodied feminist geopolitics of waiting and (im)mobilities this article examines how, in the context of restrictive state policies, social hostility and nationalism, heightened by a public health discourse emphasizing the threat of contagion embodied in migrants and a new border regime scenario, Venezuelan migrant women have deployed multiple strategies of self-care to preserve their lives. Such strategies including reverse migration to their home country, even when it meant returning to places that are even more precarious but perhaps safer for them. It also explores how Ecuador’s institutional responses to the pandemic affected Venezuelan migrants and their action capacity.

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Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-19

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“Violence Across Borders: Venezuelan Women and the Continuum of Violence in Migration and Settlement”

“Violence Across Borders: Venezuelan Women and the Continuum of Violence in Migration and Settlement”

“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador

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