Download or read book Violence and Migration in Colombia written by Gabriel Murillo-Castaño and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Migration Transnational Politics and Conflict written by Anastasia Bermudez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a timely contribution to debates surrounding transnational political participation, the relationship between diasporas and conflict, and the gendered experiences of migrants. It fills a significant lacuna in research by analysing how migrants relate to and become involved in the politics of their home and host countries, and how transnational political fields emerge and function. The author achieves this by focusing on the little known but instructive case of Colombian migration to Europe, and the connections between these flows and the armed conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia. Shedding light on different types of migration and the rising complexity of international population movements, this innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of migration and diaspora studies, gender, political participation, conflict and peace studies and Latin American studies. It will also interest policy makers and community development workers engaged in these areas.
Download or read book Violence in Colombia written by Charles W. Bergquist and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia has long suffered under such violence that it is now one of the most convulsed societies in the world. Far from being the result of solely the drug trade, the country's contemporary crisis stems from La Violencia (The Violence), a period of terror, political banditry and peasant unrest that plagued Colombia between the 1940s and the 1960s. The 14 essays in this collection examine La Violencia and its effects on current conditions, placing today's violence in its historical context.
Download or read book Migration Violence and Welfare Programmes in Rural Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the "Familias en Acción" welfare programme, the empirical analysis takes into account possible selection problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence encourage households to leave their municipality of residence but that welfare programmes may mitigate these flows, provided that the incidence of violence is not unduly high. This is consistent with the fact that the households under study are liquidity constrained: when violence is high, cash transfers may enable them to leave their municipality of residence, whereas, in more normal circumstances, receiving cash transfers increases the benefits to stay where they are registered. Further evidence using household shocks and wealth confirm that liquidity constraints play a large role in explaining such heterogeneous impacts of the programme along violence levels. Other important determinants of migration are the type of property rights and the health insurance rural households can benefit from. -- migration ; welfare programme ; violence ; displacement ; Colombia
Download or read book Immigration and Violent Crime written by Brian G. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during the recent episode of immigration from Venezuela. The key finding is that, following the closing and then re-opening of the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the border with Venezuela. Using information on the nationality of the victim, we find that this increase was driven by homicides involving Venezuelan victims, with no evidence of a statistically significant increase in homicides in which Colombians were victimized. Thus, in contrast to xenophobic fears that migrants might victimize natives, it was migrants, rather than natives, who faced risks associated with immigration. Using arrests data, there is no corresponding increase in arrests for homicides in these areas. Taken together, these results suggest that the increase in homicides close to the border documented here are driven by crimes against migrants and have occurred without a corresponding increase in arrests, suggesting that some of these crimes have gone unsolved.
Download or read book Political Murder and Reform in Colombia written by Juan E. Méndez and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents.
Download or read book Throwing Stones at the Moon written by Sibylla Brodzinsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1964, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia face a range of abuses from all sides, including killings, disappearances and rape—and more than four million have been forced to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. NARRATORS INCLUDE: MARIA VICTORIA, whose fight against corruption as a hospital union leader led to a brutal attempt on her life. In 2009, assassins tracked her to her home and stabbed her seven times in the face and chest. Since the attack, Julia has undergone eight facial reconstructive surgeries, and continues to live in hiding. DANNY, who at eighteen joined a right-wing paramilitary’s training camp. Initially lured by the promise of quick money, Danny soon realized his mistake and escaped to Ecuador. He describes his harrowing escape and his struggle to survive as a refugee with two young children to support.
Download or read book Immigration and Violent Crime written by Brian G. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during the recent episode of immigration from Venezuela. The key finding is that, following the closing and then re-opening of the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the border with Venezuela. Using information on the nationality of the victim, we find that this increase was driven by homicides involving Venezuelan victims, with no evidence of a statistically significant increase in homicides in which Colombians were victimized. Thus, in contrast to xenophobic fears that migrants might victimize natives, it was migrants, rather than natives, who faced risks associated with immigration. Using arrests data, there is no corresponding increase in arrests for homicides in these areas. Taken together, these results suggest that the increase in homicides close to the border documented here are driven by crimes against migrants and have occurred without a corresponding increase in arrests, suggesting that some of these crimes have gone unsolved.
Download or read book Crossroads in Two Colombian Cities written by Catalina Correa-Salazar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant and refugee women experience increased risks for HIV infection and gender-based violence (GBV) across migration phases. The Venezuelan humanitarian crisis has unleashed the largest exodus of migrants/refugees in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Women and girls have been forced to migrate to neighboring Colombia seeking treatment and care for health conditions such as HIV and AIDS, sexual and reproductive care, maternal and child services, and mental health counseling. Colombia, a post-conflict country, is the primary recipient of Venezuelan migrants and refugees. The Colombian post-armed conflict context imposes extremely high levels of violence on women, increasing exposure to HIV risk, GBV and trauma across migration phases. Evidence in the region is still lacking on the relationship between violence and HIV risk and how to approach the HIV response related to Venezuela's humanitarian crisis. There is a need for policies and interventions informed by culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive research that comprises women and girls' contexts and health needs. Additionally, there is a lack of evidence in Colombia and LAC on how migration and violence impact human rights of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women and girls (VMRWG). This dissertation sought to respond to these gaps in knowledge by aiming to: i) describe how violence impacts HIV risk in Colombian municipalities for women and explain how exposure to violence endured by VMRWG in Colombia impacts HIV risk and imposes barriers to HIV prevention and care among this particularly vulnerable female population; ii) answer how VMRWG perceived HIV risks and human rights violations and the strategies they implement to navigate them across migration phases to inform actionable solutions; and, iii) characterize VMRWG's access to healthcare systems, HIV services and violence prevention/protection mechanisms in Bogotá and Cúcuta. This dissertation's main goal was to study how GBV relates to HIV risk exposure and detrimental health outcomes for VMRWG to inform policies and programmatic efforts in Colombia and Latin America. We conducted a participatory-action study implementing a cross-sectional concurrent mixed-methods design in the two Colombian cities with the largest numbers of resettled migrants and refugees: Bogotá and Cúcuta. The quantitative part included negative binomial models to explore associations between social violence, proxied by homicide rates obtained from vital registrations, and newly reported HIV case rates obtained from the Colombian Ministry of Health. The qualitative part included 54 semi-structured interviews with Venezuelan migrant and refugee women (N=30/ n=15 per study site) and key informants (N=24/ n=12 per study site), social cartographies (n=16), and sexual and reproductive rights workshops (n=11) with VMRWG co-conducted by a local partner organization and community leaders in both cities. We found newly reported HIV cases in women were 25% higher for every increase of 18 homicides per 100,000 people after adjusting for covariates. Women and key informants described violence impacting HIV risk for Venezuelan women migrants related to armed actor violence and lack of government accountability, as well as to GBV and stigmatization of HIV upon resettlement. These factors impose barriers to HIV testing, treatment and care. Thus, social violence in Colombian municipalities is associated with an increase in newly reported HIV/AIDS case rates in women, which hinders VMRW's access and engagement in available HIV prevention and treatment interventions. Furthermore, we found pervasive GBV impacting HIV risk for VMRWG related to interpersonal, community and social factors. Across migration phases, perceived HIV and GBV risks relate to the presence of armed groups and lack of state accountability in border crossing and transit migration phases, whereas upon resettlement these relate to household violence, lack of social resources, gender expectations and scarce opportunities. Perceived risks differentially impact VMRWG according to their characteristics (i.e. gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and race, among others). Protective factors for VMRWG relate to peer-led networks' support and a gender approach to health that comprises their specific needs and contextual limitations to health seeking behaviors. Needed actions include promoting HIV prevention across migration phases, capitalizing on community leaders for information dissemination and engagement in care, and holistic approaches to health that promote safe housing and job conditions upon resettlement. To address and tackle discrimination, violence and HIV risk factors in the personal, micro, meso, exo and macro levels across migration phases, programs and policies need to: i) implement strategies through community-NGO alliances, ii) prioritize local needs and build trust, iii) include a human rights, intersectional and gender-sensitive approach to health. These strategies could help protect human rights and inform local public health policies.
Download or read book Between Legitimacy and Violence written by Marco Palacios and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVComprehensive overview of modern Colombian history considers why Colombia's long-established, stable political institutions have not been able to prevent frequent and extreme violence./div
Download or read book Women Violence and Social Control written by Mary Maynard and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-03-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violence Uprooting and Reinvention written by Alejandra Torres and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood and Fire written by Mary Roldán and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis study of one of the most deadly conflicts this hemisphere has ever experienced, the Colombian Violencia (1945-1958), demonstrates links between past and present violence and its connection to political democracy, racism, regionalism, and state format/div
Download or read book Internal Displacement in Colombia written by Juan Esteban Zea and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the estimated four million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia who have fled from their lands and homes have migrated to urban centers. This study, performed in Bogotá, Colombia between April and September 2009, examines how IDPs cope with living in a new, urban environment after violent displacement. I held interviews with IDPs, the non-displaced public, and government workers; performed participant-observation in government offices and neighborhoods; and examined archival material. The work examines cultural anthropological topics of violence, migration, and resistance. A discussion of state and structural violence reveals the current hardships many rural Colombians face. Analysis shows that symbolic violence manifests itself through 'othering' narratives and practices, which affect how IDPs resettle in Bogotá. The research demonstrates how IDPs' practices challenge state bureaucracy and government workers and refute the non-displaced public's stereotypes. IDPs agency both reproduces and transforms social structures in the city of Bogotá. I discuss how collective IDP agency leads to actions of resistance through public marches and takeovers. This research contributes to the field of anthropology by highlighting relations between power structures and individuals, examining how IDPs experience and resist symbolic violence, and demonstrating how IDPs create new identities in situations of forced migration.
Download or read book Key Drivers of Migration Due to Violence in Urban Areas a Case of Medellin Colombia written by Melina Ocampo-González and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The displaced people of Colombia constitute one of the world ́s largest populations of IDPs (IDMC 2017). This forced displacement is mainly caused by the internal conflict in the country, whose effects has expanded to some urban centres such as Medellin. Since then, intra-urban forced displacement has been a matter of great concern in this metropolitan area. The main aim of this research is to better understand violence-induced migration in urban areas, specifically in Medellin, Colombia, seeking to identify the challenges that any approach focused on preventing forced displacement in Medellin should take into consideration. For this purpose The Migration out of Povertys Drivers of Migration theory (2012) will be applied to this case study. The main sources of information will be the testimonies of Medellins forced displaced population from 2010 and observation during fieldwork carried out in the same year.
Download or read book Colombia s Silent Crisis written by Hiram A. Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contextual Violence and Migration Family Structure and Adolescents Behaviour written by Lina Maria Sanchez-Cespedes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
