Leir Migration Monitor – December 2023

“Before you make the journey, you don’t understand anything”

Since our research teams returned from the field in August 2023, we have been analyzing the results of their in-depth interviews with 131 migrants from 15 countries. Most of the questions were open-ended, requiring a lengthy process of qualitative coding, but we have generated some descriptive statistics that we report in Entry #5. Read the full entry here.

Migrant profiles: With regard to country of origin, age, gender, time since departure, and country of destination, our sample maps quite well onto the overall population of U.S.-bound migrants on the route from Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border. Reflecting regional trends, Venezuelans constitute the vast majority of our sample.