More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left their country in recent years as the economy enters a death spiral. Those who head north face a hard march to the US border and an uncertain future: last month the Biden administration granted work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans for 18 months; this week it also started a new programme of deportation flights to Caracas. Those who look south, to Brazil, can find a different approach: officials are on the border to process visas, private recruiters offer jobs and a government-funded airfare transports them to work in Brazil’s southern agribusiness industry. Migration experts say Brazil’s efforts to integrate migrants are unique and “can generate returns”, reports Bloomberg, which interviewed Venezuelans who have made the move. The jobs are hard and the locations remote. But it works for both sides.