Almost 8 million Venezuelans have left their home country over the last decade, an estimated 10 percent of Cubans have left their island since 2020, and at least one-tenth of Ecuadorians are living abroad following a surge of emigration in 2021.
“ I would say that we’ve entered, since maybe a few years ago, an era of human mobility without any precedent,” said Diego Chaves-González, senior manager of the Latin America and Caribbean Initiative at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. On this episode of Latin America in Focus, Chaves-González provides a regional overview of efforts made by countries like Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to receive and quickly regularize exceptional numbers of new arrivals within their borders.
But there’s still more to be done to better connect migrants’ needs with government policy and private sector goals and advance long-term social and economic development objectives, he added. One country worth looking into? Latin America’s largest economy, Brazil. “Brazil has actually done something very successful. It has sustained a non-partisan or a bipartisan immigration strategy,” Chaves-González noted, “ and I think this is the type of message that we need to be sending the region.”
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