Reception policies are still in the process of design and implementation. So far mostly focused on emergency response, Colombia is gradually shifting its policies towards a process of integration, which would fulfill the rights and the well-being of Venezuelan migrants.
Today, around 1,200,000 Venezuelan migrants live in Colombia. Venezuela’s current social and economic crisis has driven many to look for better living conditions abroad, however for a great deal this has proven difficult in a country striving to provide solutions yet failing to effectively integrate them into society.
Yet to view migration solely in numbers will distance us from the daily reality the migrants have to face: the thousands of families that have been constrained to emigrate without money, with children, many times by crossing rivers or walking on train tracks.
