Venezuelan Migrants in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao: Vulnerability and Human Trafficking

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the phenomenon of human trafficking in relation to the Venezuelan migrant population and its impact on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. The research aims to evaluate the reality of Venezuelan migrants in these islands; in this sense, cases of trafficking involving the Venezuelan population were documented and the institutional response, both at the legislative and practical levels of each of the islands, to this problem were revised. Likewise, as a result of the findings of this documentary study, a series of conclusions and recommendations were drawn up to be considered by the governments of the Dutch Caribbean regarding the treatment given to Venezuelans in their lands, urging them to review the protocol of migration officials towards migrants and exposing how the migration practices used have contributed to the increase of trafficking cases in the islands.