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Venezuelans gather in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, on April 6, 2024 to demand a free and fair process in Venezuela’s presidential election on July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

The votes of Venezuelans abroad are being suppressed

Tyler Valiquette, UCL; Cristián Valenzuela-Méndez, Northwestern University, and Yvonne Su, York University, Canada

Given the high number of Venezuelans living abroad, it is crucial those in the diaspora are able to take part in the country’s electoral process.
A Venezuelan migrant child cries after the police told his family to break up a camp they had set up on the seashore in El Morro, a neighbourhood of Iquique, Chile, in December 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase — but false perceptions endure anyway

Nicolas Ajzenman, McGill University

Increasing fears about crime in Chile can be attributed to the recent influx of immigrants, but research shows those concerns aren’t based in reality.
In this March 2018 photo, Venezuelan children wait for a meal at a migrant shelter set up in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s humane refugee policies: Good ideas can travel north

Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto

If Brazil can find an efficient, pragmatic way to welcome, protect and integrate hundreds of thousands of forced migrants arriving at its border, so can more affluent states.

Related Topics

  1. Anti-immigration attitudes
  2. Crime
  3. Diaspora
  4. Elections
  5. Migrants
  6. Nicolás Maduro
  7. UN Refugee Convention
  8. Venezuela

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