Precariedad laboral de las y los migrantes venezolanos en el sector informal en la ciudad de Cuenca desde una perspectiva de género durante el periodo Septiembre del 2023 – Febrero del 2024

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to analyze the perceptions of job insecurity of Venezuelan migrants in the informal sector of the city of Cuenca and how it influences the personal and family aspect, from a gender perspective during the period March – August 2022. For this, a methodology was applied from the qualitative approach with an inductive method from the particular to the general, the temporal scope was synchronous because we analyzed it over a period of six months, in order to understand a social phenomenon that is the job insecurity of Venezuelan migrants in the informal sector in the city of Cuenca, The tool used to collect information was the semi-structured interview, the Venezuelan interviewees from the informal sector were randomly chosen through non-probabilistic snowball sampling. The characteristics of job insecurity were analyzed and which were the most frequent in Venezuelan migrants within the informal sector of the city of Cuenca. It was also possible to identify the main inequalities, inequities, discriminations, exploitations and harassment experienced by Venezuelan migrant women and Venezuelan migrant men in relation to their status or situation of mobility in the informal sector, and how they are violated from a gender perspective. Finally, it was possible to analyze how this influences in a personal and family way and how it affects their biopsychosocial health.