‘En la Lucha’ Navigating the Venezuelan crisis on the streets of Bogota, Colombia
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2019-08-26
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The critical situation in Venezuela and increasing influx of migrants to Colombia has produced a volatile transnational social, economic, and political landscape with insufficient humanitarian protection. Many refugees and migrants find work as street vendors in the urban informal economy due to their lack of passports and consequent irregular migration status. This follows a trend around the globe now, shown in the forced migration literature pattern of refugees and migrants flocking to cities, producing tensions in local contexts. In this thesis, I seek to contribute to the growing, overlapping bodies of literature in refugee and forced migration studies and urban studies. I propose an alternative to ‘encampment’ and ‘self-settlement’ that characterizes the spatially and temporally unbound circumstances of some displaced populations, ‘social navigation’ to examine and conceptualize Venezuelan’s movements in the city, and on the streets to make a livelihood and survive in Colombia without organized social or humanitarian protection in an uncertain and changing environment. In addition to ‘identity’, I use the ‘gender lens’ and to demonstrate the gendered terrains and strategies in navigating survival and informal livelihoods on the streets of Bogotá, Colombia.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen