Narratives of venezuelan migrants in Chile and Spain: voices, forced trajectories and reconfigured identities

This article aims to understand, through narratives, the vital dynamics built by Venezuelan migrants and how they have been reconfigured, considering past, present and future. The visibility of this Latin American migratory milestone implies challenging the normality of an event that has led more than 7 million Venezuelans to leave their homes, transforming into an identity footprint, with uncertainty and opportunities and challenges. The methodology of the study focused on the qualitative approach, under the interpretative paradigm, and with the biographical-narrative method, which allowed identifying the subjective meanings of trajectories and identities. The sample consisted of five subjects, three in the regions of Vi & ntilde;a del Mar and Valparaiso (Chile), and two in Barcelona (Spain), selected under various criteria. The technique of in-depth semi-structured interviews was also used. In the findings emerge various political, affective, axiological and sociocultural categories, which were interpreted with grounded theory. Hey also show how they have seen the need to readjust trajectories, worlds of life, praxis, emotions and feelings, from emblematic events, which go from before the migratory process (past), the way they have done it, in what they have become (present), and how they conceive new identities (future). Finally, the visibility of this Latin American migratory milestone, involved challenging the normality of an event that has led more than seven million people to leave their homes, becoming an identity footprint with uncertainty, opportunities and challenges.