La migración de venezolanos a Colombia y su incidencia en los imaginarios sobre los colombianos y los migrantes, analizados a través de memes que circulan en las Redes Sociales

Abstract

This research proposes to analyze the incidence of Venezuelan migration in the imaginaries that Colombians have of themselves, of migrants and of the current Colombian-Venezuelan socio-political situation, expressed through memes that circulate on social networks such as Facebooke Instagram, which are taken as active scenarios of the political sphere that allow observe variations in public opinion Venezuelan politics and the living conditions of the Venezuelan people have always been interest for Colombians due to the fact of sharing an extensive border, a common history and a similar culture and idiosyncrasies. Since the assumption of Hugo Chávez Frías to power with his Bolivarian Revolution, which implied a change in political conditions and therefore in economic power relations both inside and outside the country, a constant process of exodus of Venezuelans can be observed that has The entire region and especially Colombia were impacted by the same characteristics set out above. For the first time in its entire republican history, Colombia is experiencing a process of receiving immense migration from Venezuela, which has not yet been sufficiently studied and weighted, and for the first time in its entire republican history. That the perception that the Colombian has of himself and his country is changing, since Colombia has traditionally been a nation of population migrant and not the reception of migrants These migratory processes, especially in Central Europe, have evidenced the exacerbation of nationalisms, which is evident in the strengthening of nationalist movements and parties of the right and / or extreme right that use xenophobia as a form of political propaganda. This radicalization of politics that builds walls and criminalizes the condition of migrant, not only shows a stigmatization of the “other” but also a transformation of ideas, representations and imaginations of “ourselves”. "