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  • Government through Inaction: The Venezuelan Migratory Crisis in Ecuador

  • Christiaan Beyers, Esteban Nicholls
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 3 / August 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 June 2020, pp. 633-657
    Print publication:
    August 2020

  • This article analyses strategies for channelling a migrant population out of a country by indirect means. Specifically, we examine the response of the Ecuadorean state to the influx of Venezuelan newcomers since 2015. We argue that this response has been characterised by inaction, rooted not in policy failures or bad governance, but rather in a strategic governmental rationality. We show how migrants are ‘herded’ out of the country as a result of a form of indirect government that works differently from other ‘anti-immigrant’ policies like forced deportations or incarceration at the border, and yet produces similar outcomes.