Vulnerabilidade de refugiados venezuelanos durante a pandemia: atuação de organizações da sociedade civil

Abstract

It deals with the development of actions in favor of Venezuelan refugees by civil society organizations during the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. It aims to identify how civil society develops actions to ensure a core of minimum survival conditions for Venezuelan refugees.The method of qualitative and exploratory analysis was adopted, in which bibliographic and doc-umentary sources are used. The research was devel-oped with the aim of describing the condition of vul-nerability that the refugee experiences; then, the im-pacts that the pandemic caused on Venezuelan refu-gees and the state action in the development of pub-lic policies are demonstrated; Finally, the role of civil society organizations in the elaboration of strategies so that refugees could have access to food, housing, emotional support and defense of rights was dis-cussed. It is concluded that the participation of civil society in the elaboration of actions was fundamental to support Venezuelan refugees during the corona-virus pandemic. Refugees make up a group of vulner-able people and face great difficulties in accessing health care and in realizing their rights; associated with these conditions, the lockdown directly affected the lives of these people who saw their income re-duce and had difficulties accessing public services and benefits.