
Received June 08, 2021 / Approved October, 06 2021 Pages: 83-101
eISSN: 2600-5743
Centro Sur Vol. 6 No. 3- July - September
Introduction
It is clear that "the International Organization for Migration (IOM),
created in 1951, is the leading intergovernmental organization in the
field of migration and works closely with governmental,
intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. It has 165 States
Parties." (Mercosur,2016, p.24). The Venezuelan migrant population
living in Colombia experiences various scourges that impact
unbalancing their quality of life and welfare, thus, the panorama they
present is given to face critical and unstable basic sanitation conditions
from the environmental, socioeconomic, political, cultural and living
conditions, However, the measurement of this affectation is not given
and therefore, there are no accurate data that show the situation of
these migrants, making relevant the case study in the Municipality of
El Espinal-Tolima, based on the statement of Arango (2019);
In the Municipality of El Espinal-Tolima there is a rate of 1,380
migrants and at the level of the Department of Tolima there are about
three thousand 946 Venezuelans and at the national level, Colombia
has one million 147 thousand, of which 696 thousand are legal
Venezuelans" (p.23).
Which leads to establish the problem question What is the impact of
the existing basic sanitation conditions on the health welfare and its
correspondence in the quality of life of Venezuelan migrant families
residing in the neighborhoods La Esperanza, Caballero y Góngora and
Portal Del Bunde in the Municipality of El Espinal Tolima, in the
period from 2019 to 2021?
The objective is to analyze the impact on the quality of life of
Venezuelan families during the period from 2019 to 2021, based on a
characterization of Venezuelan families living in the neighborhoods of
La Esperanza, Caballero y Góngora and Portal del Bunde, places where
this population is present, to know their basic sanitation conditions
and finally, to describe how they are in relation to risk scenarios that
emit a greater number of affectations to basic sanitation conditions
and quality of life.
Analysis developed with a sample of 15 Venezuelan families living in
the sectors under study, working from the subjective and objective
well-being of the actors involved based on ECLAC standards, with an
intercultural and human rights approach, working with the ecological
theory of Otero (1998) who defined quality of life as