Andrea Kvietok
Andrea Kvietok is a PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include transnational migration, discrimination and xenophobia, immigrant integration, migration journeys, return migration, and ethnography. Prior to entering graduate school, she worked as a Research Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Migration Unit, International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Research Center at Universidad del Pacífico, where her work focused on Venezuelan displacement in Latin America.
Ms. Kvietok was awarded a 2018–19 Fulbright U.S. Student grant to Peru, where she researched Peruvian migrants’ lived experiences of return and reintegration. She holds a BA in anthropology from Macalester College (Saint Paul, Minnesota).
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit South American nations at a time when many were already contending with major migration challenges. Historic levels of intraregional migration and displacement, notably from Venezuela, collided with countries’ attempts to stop the spread of a new threat to public health. This report examines the region’s responses to the public-health crisis, and the immediate and lasting impacts on cross-border movement.