Trapped and entrap on the Colombian-Venezuelan border: mobility / immobility dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic ; Atrapados y ‘entrampados’ en la frontera colombo-venezolana: dinámicas de movilidad/inmovilidad durante la pandemia por Covid-19*

This article explores the experiences of restricted mobility in Venezuelan migrants as a result of government measures to deal with the pandemic in Colombia and Venezuela at the border. From a narrative design and through semi-structured interviews carried out between May and September 2020, the documentary and hemerographic review, it was determined that Cúcuta and its metropolitan area have been configured in a mobility / immobility dyad, promoting entrapment and 'entrapment' processes in both territories. In this way, the border is assumed as a producer of differentiation logics between citizens and migrants, accentuated from the pandemic and the construction of the other as a threat of contagion from the two countries in addition to the securitization and sanitization processes as reaffirmation strategies. of sovereignty. In conclusion, the Covid19 pandemic led to the deed of a restrictive and immobilizing border; where before a territory of permanent exchange was shown and migrants have become a subject of dispute in the tense international relations between the Venezuelan government and the countries of the American continent. ; El presente artículo explora las experiencias de movilidad restringida en personas migrantes venezolanas producto de las medidas gubernamentales para hacer frente a la pandemia en Colombia y Venezuela en la frontera. Desde un diseño narrativo y a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas entre mayo y septiembre del 2020, la revisión documental y hemerográfica, se determinó que Cúcuta y su área metropolitana se ha configurado en una díada de movilidad/inmovilidad propiciando el atrapamiento y ‘entrampamiento’ en ambos territorios. De este modo, la frontera se asume como productora de lógicas de diferenciación entre ciudadanos y migrantes, acentuadas a partir de la pandemia y la construcción del otro como amenaza de contagio de los dos países sumado a los procesos de securitización y sanitización como estrategias de reafirmación de la soberanía. En conclusión, la pandemia ...