A multi-year longitudinal study of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, designed to understand how regularization programs impact migrants' well-being and Colombian society.
Regularization programs grants temporary access to labor markets and social safety nets to migrants in hosting countries
The Colombian government created the PEP regularization program to foster the integration of Venezuelan forced migrants into Colombian society and the economy.
The PEP granted beneficiaries regular migratory status, work authorization, access to private services, and inclusion in the social protection system.
Legal migratory status for two years
Access to financial services
Work permit
Access to social protection system.
VenRePS adults focuses on adults aged 18 and older who were undocumented upon arrival and entered the country between January 2017 and December 2018
VenRePs Kids collects data on Venezuelan and Colombian children ages 5 to 17 living in Medellín. It explores how international and internal forced displacement affects holistic children development including cognitive, socioemotional, and physical outcomes
The VenReP Survey is a longitudinal study designed to assess the long-term effects of the PEP regularization program on Venezuelan forced migrants in Colombia. It focuses on adults aged 18 and older who were undocumented upon arrival and entered the country between January 2017 and December 2018.
VenRePs-Kids is a longitudinal study representative of forcibly displaced Venezuelan and Colombian children and adolescents aged 5 to 17.
Peer-reviewed studies exploring the effects of Venezuelan migration and regularization policies on migrants’ well-being, labor markets, public services, and host communities.
