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Portrait of Clavel Rangel Jiménez

Clavel Rangel Jiménez

Independent journalist
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Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Winter 2025

Clavel Rangel Jiménez is a journalist with 15 years of experience covering labor unions, migration, human rights, climate change, corruption, and extractive industries in Venezuela and across the Americas. She is co-founder of the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network, an initiative dedicated to fostering training, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among journalists.

A 2024 Fellow with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Clavel is based in Miami. Her work has been featured in Correo del Caroní, Armando.info, The Guardian, Univision, and El Tiempo Latino. Her current research explores the resettlement and integration of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S., with a particular focus on the mental health challenges faced by asylum-seeking families and children in schools. She is developing a long-term project to document these dynamics.

Research focus while a Fellow with CERC Migration

Clavel will explore the integration of asylum-seeking Venezuelans and other forcibly displaced populations, comparing approaches in Canada and the U.S. She aims to examine narratives surrounding migration, integration policies, and the role of local communities in fostering resilience amidst political polarization. While engaging with CERC Migration researchers, local stakeholders, and NGOs, Clavel seeks to contribute cross-border insights and inform solutions to address forced displacement and promote successful integration models.

Publications and Reports

(2024) Remolinos [Whirpools].  (PDF file) Histórias de migrantes latino-americanos na Europa, nos Estados Unidos e no Canadá (external link)  [Stories of Latin American migrants in Europe, the United States and Canada] . Editora Casa Flutuante São Paulo.

(2024) Cruzar la línea sur (external link)  [Crossing the Southern Line]. Prodavinci.

(2023) Frontera sur: una línea frágil entre la vida y la muerte (external link)  [Southern Border: A Fraile Line Between Life and Death]. Correo del Caroní and Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network.

(2021) Escape de la Tierra de Gracia: las nuevas balsas del Caribe [Escape from the Land of Grace: The New Rafts of the Caribbean]. Capítulo 1 (external link) , Capítulo 2 (external link) , Capítulo 3 (external link) . Arepita y Son Indelebles.

(2018) Migrating to Save the Life of a Child (external link) . Cúcuta: Emergency Exit. DeJusticia and Provea.