This article examines public preferences for immigration policies in Colombia, and the extent to which humanitarian concerns matter for those preferences. Colombia hosts an estimated 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants, approximately 40 percent of the total number of Venezuelan migrants who were displaced between 2014 and 2023. Venezuelan migrants and Colombian natives share similar histories, as well as ethnolinguistic, social, and cultural features.
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Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution
This paper examines the effect of immigration on social preferences for redistribution in Latin America, including the specific effect of large-scale Venezuelan displacement to Colombia. Most immigration in Latin American countries is intra-regional (70 percent in the 2010s), with migrants coming from countries with similar cultural backgrounds, including language and religion.
Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization, cases, and deaths of citizens and displaced Venezuelans in Colombia: Complementary comprehensive and safety-net systems under Colombia’s constitutional commitment
This article assesses the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization and health outcomes of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, compared to Colombian citizens. Colombia hosts an estimated 1.8 million displaced Venezuelans, mostly located in large cities such as Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cúcuta, and Medellín.
Least Protected, Most Affected: Impacts of Migration Regularization Programs on Pandemic Resilience
This article examines the effect of regularization of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia on their resilience during the COVID pandemic. Colombia hosts 2.5 million migrants who fled the economic, political, and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
This paper examines how a Colombian regularization program for Venezuelan migrants affected their fertility decisions. Since 2016, more than 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants have settled in Colombia.
The Labor Market Effect of South-to-South Migration: Evidence From the Venezuelan Crisis
This paper examines the impact of Venezuelan migration on the labor market outcomes of migrants and non-migrants in Colombia. Between 2014 and 2018, Colombia received approximately 1.2 million migrants from Venezuela, accounting for approximately 3.2 percent of the working-age population. A quarter of those immigrants were Colombian citizens who returned to the country due to the Venezuelan crisis. International migrants (not Colombian born) share a common history with Colombia and speak the same language.
Immigration and Occupational Downgrading in Colombia
Between 2015 and 2019, political and economic turmoil in Venezuela forced about 1.8 million people to migrate to Colombia, increasing the country’s population by almost 4 percent. Venezuelan migrants disproportionately found employment in occupations that employ less...
Living with the Neighbors: The Effect of Venezuelan Forced Migration on Wages in Colombia
This paper investigates the impact of Venezuelan migration on the labor market in Colombia between 2013 and 2019. By 2019, there were nearly 1.8 million Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia, increasing the share of Venezuelans living in Colombia relative to the...
The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia: reconciling conflicting results
This paper examines the short-term effects of Venezuelan migration on wages and employment of native workers in Colombia. Between 2015 and 2019, Colombia received around 1.8 million displaced Venezuelans, increasing the country’s population by almost 4 percent....
Unexpected guests: The impact of internal displacement inflows on rental prices in Colombian host cities
The article examines the impact of IDP inflows on rental prices in Colombian cities. Even before the peak of the internal displacement crisis in the early 2000s, Colombia already had large housing deficits in urban areas. IDPs may affect the housing market in several...