Focus on the Americas

Opportunity:

Academic Competition for Works on Refugees by University Students in Brazil [info] [press release]
- Scroll to bottom of page for info. Competition sponsored by ACNUR and the Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello. Submissions are due 29 June 2012.

Publications:

Dangerous Journey: Migration through the Transit Country Mexico (Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Jan. 2012) [text]

"Desplazamiento Creciente y Crisis Humanitaria Invisibilizada," CODHES Informa Boletín, no. 79 (March 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Filling the Protection Gap: Current Trends in Complementary Protection in Canada, Mexico and Australia, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 238 (UNHCR, May 2012) [text]

"Illegal Refugees: Competing Policy Ideas and the Rise of the Regime of Deterrence in American Asylum Politics," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 2012) [text via Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair]

"The Occupation of Public Space in Bogota: Internal Displacement and the City," Social & Legal Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (Forthcoming 2012) [eprint via SSRN]

"Off the Beaten Track, On the Overground Railroad: Central American Refugees and the Organizations that Helped Them," Legacy, vol. 11, no. 1 (2011) [open access text]

Protegiendo a las Personas Refugiadas en el Ecuador: Preguntas y Respuestas (UNHCR, 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

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