Políticas públicas en Colombia frente a la migración venezolana

Abstract

The humanitarian crisis currently being experienced by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has generated a significant increase in the number of migrants in Colombia to such an extent that by the year 2018, 870,093 Venezuelans remained in the national territory as a result of the lack of food and high prices, insecurity, inadequate health service and other causes that led to the departure of its inhabitants to Colombia and different parts of the world. In this sense, as a recipient country, the need arises to generate the necessary public policies to mitigate the adverse effects of the migratory phenomenon and safeguard the rights of the migrant population; In this way, through Law 1873 of 2017 and Decree 542 of 2018, the basis for the generation of said policy is instituted without a systemic development being demonstrated until now, as only in some sectors such as the one of Health and education have taken steps to regulate the growing phenomenon of migration. This is how in this research, through the assessment of the current conditions of Venezuelan migration, the analysis of public policies and normative body on migration issues and the examination of public policies generated as a result of Venezuelan migration, the insufficiency of these will be determined in the face of the problem and the need for the articulation of a comprehensive public policy that obeys the current conditions of Venezuelan migration.