MIGRANT UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS: A QUANTITATIVE LOOK AT A QUALITATIVE PROBLEM /Docentes universitarios migrantes: una mirada cuantitativa a un problema cualitativo /PROFESSORES UNIVERSITARIOS MIGRANTES: UM OLHAR QUANTITATIVO A UM PROBLEMA QUALITATIVO

Concerning Venezuela, migration is a recent phenomenon that, due to its magnitude, has attracted the attention of countries and international organizations. This study focuses on university professors to investigate some of the factors that conditioned their leaving the country, determine their job and academic characteristics at the time of migration, and explore elements of their social inclusion and professional integration in the host country. We worked with a non-probability sample of 373 professors who answered an online questionnaire. The results indicate that the country's economic and political crisis motivated their migration. Most began to leave as of 2015. Almost half hold a doctorate and less than a third now work in university teaching, but they state that their living conditions are better now than when they migrated.