Table 1 Dimensions illustrating the impact of border closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Venezuelan migrants’ human rights in the Southern Cone region
# | Dimension | Sub themes |
|---|---|---|
1 | Border and migration processes | • Health issues (e.g., dehydration, accidents including fractures, chronic diseases) while crossing through the Atacama Desert |
• Challenges faced by migrants and locals accessing to basic needs during the most critical point of the pandemic | ||
• The reality and the consequences of the closure and lock down of shelters and international organizations that aimed to help migrants | ||
2 | Specific groups and Intersectionality | • Characteristics of the new migrant groups (e.g., entire families) defined as the third Venezuelan wave and their health needs (e.g., mental health issues) |
• Particularities and difficulties of the recently arrived migrants through irregular crossing points that illustrate their complex migration journeys | ||
3 | Barriers to health care services | • Examples of misinformation, disinformation, and discrimination faced by irregular migrants while trying to access health care services |
• Stateless children and the barriers that the system faced to enter them into the system so they could have access to their fundamental human rights | ||
4 | Regional and local responses to the crisis | • Description of important efforts taken by international organizations, local organizations, local institutions, community leaders and society to address migrants’ health and social needs |
• Characteristics of two local programs that were implemented to guarantee assistance to basic needs of people living on the streets and to the most vulnerable population (i.e., children and pregnant women) |