Co-production for the integration of migrant human capital into the decent work

PLoS One. 2023 Dec 13;18(12):e0295756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295756. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

During the last few years, the mass exodus of Venezuelan citizens to other countries has turned Venezuela into an emigration country, with Peru receiving the second-highest number of migrants. This article explains the co-production process of integrating Venezuelan migrants and refugees into the host society under decent work conditions. This is a qualitative, cross-sectional explanatory case study covering the second half of 2022. It shows that within the co-production effort, civil society organisations entail a role in creating collective mechanisms and spaces to enable communication and information, helping to identify existing problems and vulnerabilities, and finding alternatives to mitigate them. Additionally, in the process of integrating migrants' human capital under the decent work condition there is the relevance of migrant-based civil society organisations, due to the fact that they can enhance trust and the quality of the interaction and dialogue with the beneficiary public, identify their specific needs and potential solutions and, therefore, increase the quality and efficiency of the services provided.

MeSH terms

  • Communication
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • Humans
  • Refugees*
  • Transients and Migrants*

Grants and funding

This work was financially supported by the Universidad de Lima (Peru) through the Instituto de Investigación Científica research grant number PI.52.001.2022. Fund was awarded to VGHS. The funder provided support in the form of salaries to VGHS from April 2022 to March 2023. All authors had full access to all the data in the study and accepted responsibility for submitting the publication. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.