SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MIGRATION DYNAMICS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuelan migration has occurred before, for different reasons, with less frequency and volume. However, there is currently a deep economic, social and political crisis in Venezuela, which has caused the exodus. In order to understand the reasons that drove Venezuelans to emigrate, their experiences abroad and their expectations about their return, the qualitative methodological approach, the socio-critical paradigmatic stance and the hermeneutic method were used. The information was obtained through bibliographical analysis and in-depth interviews. The findings point to the existence of deteriorating living conditions in Venezuela that induce its citizens to leave their country by force and the imperative of a necessary change in governmental management in which policies aimed at attracting migrants back to their country and the recovery of human talent are proposed and implemented.