IOM
– At least 5,000 indigenous people born in Venezuela have arrived in Brazil since 2016, crossing the two countries’ borders as part of the mass movement of Venezuelan refugees and migrants sweeping the region. These people, approximately 65 per cent of whom are from the Warao ethnic group, have specific cultural traditions which must be taken into account.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) this month is partnering with Brazil’s Ministry of Citizenship, its Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights and the National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) to launch a comprehensive survey of the indigenous Venezuelans now living in Brazil.
This daunting undertaking will register these indigenous peoples in more than 40 different municipalities in five regions of Brazil. Preliminary data collection by IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams has started and will serve as a national sample pool for how the Warao and other indigenous Venezuelans now live in the