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Social, Labor and Cultural Integration of Immigrants: A Quali-Quantitative Approach to the Venezuelan-Ecuadorian Case

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Intelligent Technologies: Design and Applications for Society (CITIS 2022)

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Between the two extremes of the social exclusion-integration spectrum, here we addressed the second since the social integration of immigrants must be assisted by the host country. In this paper, we analyzed this process as a combination of cultural integration and labor integration, through in-depth interviews complemented with non-parametric methods, Bayesian statistics, and Boolean algebra applied to small data. In the empirical approach, we used the Venezuelan-Ecuadorian case. We found that this relationship is fully satisfied, therefore social integration can be evaluated in a more tangible manner. The mechanism that accelerates it is the network of friends. The absence of this network affects women more intensely. We recommend that governments encourage its conformation, evidence, and reduce the naturalization of precarious jobs of immigrants. Our results opened a line of research on differential factors with Venezuelan immigration in other countries and perceptions of immigrant inequality.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Mariana Busso and Byrone Tomalá for their helpful amendments to our theoretical framework of labor and culture, respectively. Any remaining errors are ours. We thank Aleyda Lastre and Jéssica Toledo for their assistance in collecting and organizing the data.

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This work was supported by the ESPOL Research Dean’s Office (FCSH-15-2021).

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  1. New York University, New York, USA

    Candice Medina

  2. Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, USA

    Nicole Tapia

  3. ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Marco Velásquez & Fabricio Zanzzi

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Medina, C., Tapia, N., Velásquez, M., Zanzzi, F. (2023). Social, Labor and Cultural Integration of Immigrants: A Quali-Quantitative Approach to the Venezuelan-Ecuadorian Case. In: Robles-Bykbaev, V., Mula, J., Reynoso-Meza, G. (eds) Intelligent Technologies: Design and Applications for Society. CITIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 607. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24327-1_9

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