{"id":182,"date":"2020-01-16T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=182"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:19","slug":"the-extraordinary-plight-of-venezuelan-women-an-acute-example-of-the-need-for-global-recognition-as-refugees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-34-number-1-spring-2020\/the-extraordinary-plight-of-venezuelan-women-an-acute-example-of-the-need-for-global-recognition-as-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Plight of Venezuelan Women: An Acute Example of the Need for Global Recognition as Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current mass exodus of Venezuelans is the second largest forced\u00a0migration in the world.1\u00a0Those leaving Venezuela could reach eight million\u00a0by next year\u2013surpassing in numbers even those fleeing Syria.2 Men, women,\u00a0and children traverse the continent predominantly by foot, as bus fares are far\u00a0too expensive for most Venezuelans, and many do so without shoes.\u00a0They\u00a0walk 350 miles to Colombia or further to arrive at Ecuador or Peru.\u00a0Temperatures along the way exceed ninety degrees and drop below freezing.4\u00a0The trochas\u2013illegal border crossings through rivers\u2013have become infamous\u00a0routes for those fleeing Venezeula.5 The magnitude of the migration is indica-tive of the severity of the humanitarian crisis that Venezuelans flee, yet the\u00a0group lacks official recognition as refugees6\u00a0and relief efforts are largely\u00a0underfunded.7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/01\/GT-GILJ190050.pdf\">Continue Reading The Extraordinary Plight of Venezuelan Women: An Acute Example of the Need for Global Recognition as Refugees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current mass exodus of Venezuelans is the second largest forced\u00a0migration in the world.1\u00a0Those leaving Venezuela could reach eight million\u00a0by next year\u2013surpassing in numbers even those fleeing Syria.2 Men, women,\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"parent":146,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}