L'immigration au Venezuela

Immigration to Venezuela. Michel PICOUET, Ada PELLEGRINO, Jean PAPAIL Immigration to Venezuela is clearly of a short-term nature. Flows follow job opportunities and adjust to the labour markel and to the financial capacity of the exchange market. The large increase of migratory movements to Venezuela in the 1970s is characterized by a diversification of their places of origin and by a greater instability. To a large extent, the migrants are illegal, especially those coming from Columbia and the Caribbean islands. Because of the crisis of the early 1980s, which is now worsened by the down trend of both oil prices and the US dollar, Venezuela has become less attractive to immigrants, particularly from neighbouring countries. The problem for Venezuela is not so much that of the overall number of migrants, but rather lies in the fact that immigrants are not really integrated in Venezuela and their return might upset the fragile balance on the labour market, especially as far as specialized and technical jobs are concerned

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