Promoting the rights of migrant children in the educational institutions on the colombian-venezuelan border.

Liany Yetzira Hernández-Granados,Yesli Geraldine Murillo-Amado,Viviana Veronica Alarcon-Suarez,Javier Perozo-Hernández

doi:10.22463/25909215.2648

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Abstract

This article arises before the panorama of the political, economic and social crisis that the neighboring country of Venezuela has suffered in recent years, which has caused a large number of the Venezuelan population to migrate to different countries in search of better life conditions. Among them are boys and girls, who, faced with the need to continue their educational process, have begun their studies in various public schools in the city of San José de Cúcuta. This new phenomenon has caused a change in school environments, with different consequences, including the ever-increasing risk of problems of discrimination and xenophobia, where Venezuelan boys and girls may be exposed to abuse due to their socio-economic condition and their age. Based on this situation, the Human Rights Research Seedbed –SEMDHUM-, attached to the Law program of the Francisco de Paula Santander University, proposed an extension project that developed a culture of peace and coexistence, based on the investigation of the International and national normative framework regarding the right to education and equality of migrant children, educational pedagogical spaces were also generated in public primary educational institutions in the city of San José de Cúcuta, in order to raise awareness and train on the rights of migrant children in school and thus appropriate children in human rights, equality and non-discrimination. To carry out this project, the qualitative methodology and the pedagogical play method were applied, through activities and games, where the child learns and demonstrates their different perspectives and knowledge, improving the student and cultural environment.

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As members of the academy and part of the seedbed for research on human rights (SEMDHUM), we are carrying out this project focused on children, with the aim of influencing the problems of the region where we develop, mainly in migrant children who are studying in the educational institutions of the city of San José de Cúcuta, coming from the neighbouring country, Venezuela
There are difficulties in including children, due to factors such as cultural differences, age discrimination and educational level; that is why training days were held on equality and nondiscrimination, human rights and a culture of peace, to promote the eradication of xenophobia in the educational institutions with the largest influx of migrant children in the city of San José de Cúcuta
We propose as objectives the promotion of human rights, especially equality, the establishment of spaces for learning, reflection and dialogue, the contribution to the eradication of growing xenophobia in the context of the city, and in this way build a culture of peace, and in turn make effective articles 44, 13, and 67 of the Political Constitution of Colombia

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Introduction

There are difficulties in including children, due to factors such as cultural differences, age discrimination and educational level; that is why training days were held on equality and nondiscrimination, human rights and a culture of peace, to promote the eradication of xenophobia in the educational institutions with the largest influx of migrant children in the city of San José de Cúcuta.

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