Female Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees

There is limited understanding of the underlying contributing factors to child marriage and the unique challenges faced by girls affected in the context of Venezuela's ongoing geopolitical and economic crisis. To bridge this knowledge gap, we employed an inductive approach to identify themes derived from 89 first and third person narratives, collected in 2022, about female Venezuelan migrants/refugees in child marriages/informal unions in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Prominent themes included insecurity—pre-, during and post-migration—as well as the loss of support networks that contributed to their forming informal unions, experiencing intimate partner violence, and enduring multifaceted challenges related to motherhood and migration for economic purposes. Understanding the experiences of early marriage/unions during migration is critical to preventing child marriage and better supporting affected girls

Bridge (graph theory · Context (archaeology · Geopolitics · Human trafficking · Immigration · Refugee · Gender, Health, and Social Inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Venezuelan Migration and Society