The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorGonzalez-Aguero, Marcela
dc.contributor.authorBurcu, Oana
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:09:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:09:15Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn a context marked by restrictive migration policies, precarious living conditions and a neoliberal market, this article explores how Venezuelan migrants incorporated themselves into the job market through informal entrepreneurship, the challenges they faced, and sources of resilience they developed. We draw on eleven semi-structured and in-depth interviews with Venezuelan migrants who participated in a micro-entrepreneurship training program delivered by a Santiago-based NGO during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the entrepreneurship literature, vulnerability framework and thematic analysis, our findings suggest that there isn't a one-dimensional incorporation into the labour market experience among the group studied, despite similarities among the members; rather there is a dynamic intersectionality of gender, legal status, household economy and structural factors that amplify their precarity. The findings also highlight that migrants' capability of acquiring stable employment was essential to their well-being, in the absence of avenues to acquire formal employment, microenterprises became a source of motivation and resilience, providing them with a network of contacts and social support.
dc.description.funderUniversitas 21
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1369183X.2024.2305270
dc.identifier.eissn1469-9451
dc.identifier.issn1369-183X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2305270
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91026
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001155915400001
dc.issue.numero14
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final3471
dc.pagina.inicio3453
dc.revistaJournal of ethnic and migration studies
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectSkilled migrant
dc.subjectvulnerability
dc.subjectinformal labour market
dc.subjectentrepreneurship
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subject.ods01 No Poverty
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.ods09 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
dc.subject.odspa01 Fin de la pobreza
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.subject.odspa09 Industria, innovación e infraestructura
dc.titleThe vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen50
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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