Percepciones de la población cuencana sobre las personas venezolanas: actitudes y discursos en torno a población en situación de movilidad humana

Abstract

Social perception refers to the impressions that people have about others, considering that the different elements of information obtained about something participate as a whole generating a dynamic impression, difficult to predict from the separate elements; the general objective of this research was based on identifying the perceptions of the population of Cuenca that has interacted with the Venezuelan population, based on the identification of attitudes and characterization of discourses. In this study, a semi-structured interview was used as an instrument, applied in the parishes of San Joaquín and Bellavista in the city of Cuenca, which allowed finding different topics within the categories: attitudes and discourses. Within the results, attitudes and discourses linked to exclusion towards the Venezuelan population were predominantly found; the Venezuelan population is related to situations of begging, delinquency, lack of employment, which converge in an existing and latent cultural clash within the population of Cuenca. The result of this research will help to generate future state interventions, in addition to contributing to the base project proposed by PYDLOS.