Migrantes e refugiados venezuelanos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro: trabalho e territorialidades

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the insertion of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in the labor market of the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as to understand how this population is territorialized in the new space based on their life experiences. To achieve the objectives, the investigation tried to acknowledge the reasons why Venezuela became a country of strong population exodus, the routes done by venezuelans who came to Rio de Janeiro, the dynamics of social networks, which facilitate migration and enable bigger integration, and the living and working routines of this population in the city. Although most venezuelans interviewed have completed or incomplete higher education, they are inserted in diversified manner in the labor market and in activities that are slightly or not related to their jobs in Venezuela. It was observed that while venezuelans interiorized through Operação Acolhida tend to concentrate themselves in communities located in the Itanhangá neighborhood, the others are distributed throughout the metropolis following their own survival logic. The work also indicates the lack of public policies at the local scale aimed at welcoming and integrating the migrant and refugee population.