“La tormenta perfecta”: desplazamientos internos por desastres durante la pandemia por COVID-19 en países latinoamericanos y caribeños, en clave de género

Este documento de trabajo analiza los impactos diferenciados de género de los desastres climáticos ocurridos en países de América latina y el Caribe durante el año 2020, en un contexto dominado por la crisis sanitaria global provocada por la pandemia por COVID-19.

Published on July 18, 2022

Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga | lanid, IDPs, Disaster, Health, Americas (inc Caribbean)

Argentina. Alud en la ciudad de Tartagal. 2009 © Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga

Durante el año 2020 se registraron más de 2.7 millones de personas desplazadas internas por desastres, en 16 países de la región latinoamericana y caribeña, coincidiendo temporalmente con la primera ola de la pandemia por COVID-19. El impacto de los eventos climáticos sobre la sociedad se crea de la implicación concurrente de variables históricas, sociales, políticas, y económicas, con una profunda diferencia de género, y no únicamente por condiciones ambientales. Si enmarcamos esto en tiempos de pandemia por COVID-19, emerge un escenario singularmente adverso, de gran relevancia y repercusión para la población de la región de ALC. Por ello, es necesario evidenciar los distintos impactos que enfrentaron las personas desplazadas internas en esta región durante gran parte del año 2020; y posteriormente pensar en posibles soluciones con un enfoque de género para las personas desplazadas.

Dr Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga es profesor titular en la Universidad de la Sierra Sur, en Oaxaca, México. Es Doctor en Demografía por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, y se ha formado en Argentina, Brasil y Chile. Ha estudiado desastres a nivel latinoamericano: el terremoto de Chile de 2010, el alud de Tartagal (Argentina) en el año 2009, el terremoto de México de 2017. Ha sido consultor de agencias de Naciones Unidas como: UNFPA, PNUD, IOM y Banco Mundial. Sus líneas de investigación están relacionadas con salud ambiental, desastres y salud pública y salud mental en situaciones de desastre.

Este Working Paper fue escrito por el autor durante su Summer Fellowship on Internal Displacement (Beca de Verano sobre Desplazamiento Interno) en el Internal Displacement at the Internal Displacement Research Programme de la Refugee Law Initiative. La beca fue apoyada por el Arts and Humanities Research Council, en nombre del UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund, como parte del proyecto financiado “Interdisciplinary Network on Internal Displacement, Conflict and Protection” (AH /T005351/1).

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