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Venezuelans in Dominican territory rose from 3 thousand 434 in 2012 to 25 thousand 872 in 2017, according to official figures, but data from representatives of the Coordinating Council of the Venezuelan diaspora in the country calculate that they add already 30 thousand, the majority with irregular migration status.
It is mostly a very young and very professional population who fled a reality, told Efe Ana Maria Rodríguez, coordinator of the aforementioned table
Rodríguez, teacher. by profession, it refers to people aged 22 to 35, mainly professionals, but also to young people aged 16 to 22 who have been forced to freeze their studies to work in this country.
They moved to the Dominican Republic with the illusion of starting a new life and although some have managed to insert themselves into the formal labor market, many are dedicated to the informal economy, So it is not difficult to end up in the Dominican streets Venezuelan professionals selling juice or arepa.
Many of them are also victims of labor exploitation and, in the case of women, there is increasing talk of sexual exploitation and trafficking in persons, particularly in the tourist areas. arbitrary by the immigration authorities.
Venezuelans can travel to the Dominican Republic without a visa and generally obtain a two-month residence permit, but the official data themselves show that more and more they are mainly concentrated in Santo Domingo, in the Province of North Santiago and in the tourist resort of Punta Cana (east), and most of them work in the Santiago area. services, said Carlos Mendoza, a teacher who arrived in the country last year before the worsening of the crisis.
Mendoza, also a member of the Diaspora coordinator, defended his decision to settle in the Dominican Republic, where he practices, for the serious crisis that was going on Venezuela . "The state collapses, institutions are destroyed and access to any document or any activity is complicated.It is complicated by the shortage, which becomes a space to generate corruption", he says in an interview with Efe.
Lack of access to documents prevents Venezuelans from normalizing their immigration status, but also from studying.
But Venezuelans do not want to risk going to their country to carry out such procedures because it is very expensive and, for fear of not being able to leave again.
Venezuelans in the Dominican Republic have asked the government, unsuccessfully, for migratory facilities to settle their situation in the country.
The solution would be, for the moment, the signature of a presidential decree by which Venezuelan citizens will receive a temporary permit without having to go to Venezuela to obtain the required documents, declared the Venezuelan lawyer Alejandro Argentino in Efe. "The solution, in any case, may be deportation."
Because, as pointed out by Ana María Rodríguez, "throwing a Venezuelan empty-handed to Venezuela is taking him to death.It is the reality. "
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