The Venezuelan Migration Crisis: its Human and Economic Faces

With a repressive regime and a collapsing economy driving millions of people out of Venezuela, the hemisphere is faced with the ramifications of this massive exodus. The tragic impact on the lives of Venezuelans living as refugees and migrants combined with the economic costs for the receiving countries makes this a crisis that is screaming for greater attention. This panel will examine these two different, yet overlapping, components by looking at the economic and human faces of this migration crisis. This discussion will be led by the following speakers:

 

Moderator/Commentator: Marie Price, Professor of Geography and International Affairs, George Washington University (GWU)

Oscar Valencia, Lead Specialist at the Fiscal Management Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Francisco Quintana, Director of the Venezuelan Human Mobility Program and the Andean, North-American and Caribbean Region of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)