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Work is a key element of social integration since it is not only a source of livelihood but also a way of acquiring social recognition and facilitating access to other services such as education, health, environment, housing and culture. The absence of work can mean social exclusion and marginalization, especially when dealing with individuals in conditions of migration and critical circumstances such as the pandemic generated by Covid-19. The objective of this research is to determine how Venezuelan migrants have been integrated into the Colombian labor market and, through it, into society. The research is carried out in the first semester of 2021, collecting information from Venezuelan migrants who were working at that time. The study method is positivist, with an explanatory scope and transversal cut, using work as a central theory of discussion as a social integrator. The main results indicate that the economic and social imbalance produced by the pandemic and the migratory flows have generated the loss of the status quo of the local population, and conformity, harassment, discrimination and even xenophobia toward migrants are beginning to be perceived.  Most of them have the necessary skills to seek employment and Colombia's institutional conditions allow them to find work and opt for naturalization as citizens with full rights and duties, although in times of the pandemic this insertion has been interrupted.

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