Guía en migración y Derechos Sociales Económicos y Culturales y del Ambiente: Diversidad Cultural de la Migración y el Derecho a la Alimentación en Colombia.

Abstract

During the year 2020, the international migratory phenomenon was carried out by 281 million people, that is, 3.6% of the world population (OIM, 2020). The political and economic situation that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela continues to experience gave rise to the external displacement of almost 6 million Venezuelans. Of these, 85% have been deployed throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, concentrating on countries such as Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. (p.108)

This situation has made Colombia face an unprecedented process in its history, since it had always been an issuer of nationals to various countries, including the United States, Venezuela and Spain.

In general, migrants face barriers to acquiring food derived from the lack of employment, support networks, among other situations that prevent them from enjoying them in sufficient quality and quantity.

This is the reason why migration and the right to food are especially important in the public policy of the Colombian state.

Due to the above, the Colombian State has had to make a series of regulatory and institutional adjustments in order to improve the institutional response in order to guarantee, as much as possible, the right to food of the migrant population.

This guide is urgent as a product of the institutional research project Fodein 2022 entitled Migration and Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights: Cultural diversity of migration and the right to Food in Colombia, as a tool that facilitates the social appropriation of knowledge of who advise migrants in the legal offices of the different locations of the Santo Tomás University.