Venezuelan Migrants Have Shown a Great Level of Adaptation in the E.U.

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FACTS:
*Venezuelans account for the largest percentage increase in the migrant population
*Have one of the highest percentages of college graduates
*Represent the highest growth within the workforce
*They still need to assimilate the English language and achieve greater economic benefit

They are the ones that nobody wants, the victims of a dirty political negotiation between the political forces that involve Russia and the United States. No migrant in recent history has suffered as much as Venezuelans seeking to escape a regime that has plunged them into misery and undesirable human conditions.

It is estimated that more than 25% of the Venezuelan population has fled the country during the government of Nicolas Maduro. It is estimated that 2.5 million have gone to Colombia, followed by Peru with 1.5 million and about 0.5 million to the US.

A recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times condemned that the provision put into practice by the pandemic called Title42 is being unfairly applied to Venezuelans. “This new ‘migration enforcement process’ was unveiled two weeks ago to ease the crush at the southern U.S. border, leaving thousands of desperate Venezuelan migrants stuck in Mexico. The program relies on cooperation from Mexican government officials, who have agreed to allow the Venezuelans to remain in Mexico, for now,” says the editorial.

Well, Mexico has started repatriation flights for Venezuelans returning them to the country they fled from.
But what is surprising are the figures released by a UCLA study which highlights that Venezuelan migrants have successfully adapted to US society. and they have gained many places on the social ladder compared to typical Central American or Mexican migrants.

Here are some examples:

-The rate of change over the past two decades varied significantly by Latino descent group (see Figure 4). Due to political and economic instability at home, the number of Latinos of Venezuelan descent in the United States grew more than six-fold. Since 2000, the population has grown by more than 50 percent.

-With the exception of Ecuadorians, South Americans are the most educated Latinos: more than half (53%) of Venezuelans have at least a bachelor’s degree, the highest share among all groups and higher than that of Whites and most other racial groups. Meanwhile, Latinos from the Northern Triangle region (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) and Mexico have much lower college graduation rates—between just 12% and 15%.

-Almost all Latino groups, except Uruguayans, participate in the labor force at a higher rate today than they did in 2000 (see Figure 15). Venezuelans exhibited the largest growth (10 percentage points), followed by Nicaraguans and Cubans (8 points each), Costa Ricans (7 points), and Dominicans and Chileans (6 points each).