Between Transit And Settlement: The Ethnographic Survey As A Methodological Tool For The Study Of Recent Venezuelan Immigration To Costa Rica

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https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v8n15.398

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venezuelans, methodology, immigrants, ethnographic survey, social media

Abstract

 In recent years, Venezuelan migration to many Latin American countries has turned some cities in the region into places of transit and migratory stay. The objective of this article is to show the methodological and empirical contribution of the Ethno-survey of recent immigration in host contexts (LAMP-ENIR) 2021), focused on knowing the living conditions and migratory, labor and social history of people arriving to a country. The challenges and advantages of an interdisciplinary, longitudinal and multilevel project to access migrant populations in a city are discussed and made visible through the analysis of Venezuelans in San José, Costa Rica, where family adjustments, social networks and the migratory project are examples of the migratory complexity rarely shown in censuses and surveys.

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Author Biography

  • Jéssica Nájera, El Colegio de México

    Professor-Researcher at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México, since 2015; Bachelor in Economics, Master in Demography and PhD in Population Studies. Member of the National System of Researchers and research networks in migration, family and work, and groups of accompaniment to migrants. Her research focuses on the links between migration and work, from a sociodemographic perspective, with quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She develops particular topics such as: Cross-border mobility and migration between Mexico and Guatemala; International migration in Latin America, particularly in the Mesoamerican region; Migration flows and integration of migrants in Mexico; Family, work and gender. She was responsible for the Survey on Migration in the Southern Border of Mexico (Emif Sur) from 2005 to 2008; and since 2019 she is a member of the Project on Mexican/Mesoamerican (MMP) and Latin American Migration (LAMP-ENIR), projects of El Colegio de México and Brown University.

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Published

2025-03-20

How to Cite

Between Transit And Settlement: The Ethnographic Survey As A Methodological Tool For The Study Of Recent Venezuelan Immigration To Costa Rica. (2025). Encartes, 8(15), 11-38. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v8n15.398