INTRODUCTION:
the global strategy for infant and young child feeding is a current initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), developed with the aim of "revitalizing global attention to the impact of feeding practices on nutritional status, growth, development, health and, therefore, survival," (1). In the migratory context, the conditions and difficulties of the journey can lead to modifications or adoptions in food practices, which are reflected in the timing and methods of meeting the ideal parameters of the WHO and UNICEF.

METHODS:
descriptive and cross-sectional observational study with a convenience sample of 253 migrant women with children up to 24 months old, invited to participate with signed informed consent and under the authorization of an ethics committee.

RESULTS:
the age of women has a lower limit of 18 years, a median of 25 years and an upper limit of 43 years. The ethnicity was 13% Afro-descendant and 87% mixed race. The women's nationalities were 8% Colombian, 4% Ecuadorian, and 88% Venezuelan. The marital status of the women was 77% in common-law unions, 9% single, 6% married, 6% divorced and 2% widowed. The two most frequent migration travel routes were Venezuela to Ecuador at 26% and Venezuela to Peru at 20%. In children up to 24 months, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding is 52%, mixed breastfeeding 17%, complementary breastfeeding 65%, formula use 30%, and weaned children 28%.

CONCLUSIONS:
the prevalence of breastfeeding among migrants does not reach the target values of the World Health Organization, although migration is not the reason for abandoning breastfeeding.