ABSTRACT
The Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis with an exodus of almost 5.5 million migrants in the last five years is the most enormous human mobility flow in Latin American contemporary history. This chapter focuses on different transitions the Colombian migration regime has evidenced vis-à-vis this migration crisis. The text gives special attention to the refugee category’s issue and how the Colombian State negotiates the international organizations’ recommendation of issuing Venezuelan forced migrants the refugee status by developing different ad hoc measures. I conducted the study by developing a content analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted in 2018 with experts, Colombian state representatives, and various documents, articles, and books published by the Colombian Migration Office, UNHCR, OAS, and migration scholars.
