Regional Focus: Americas

Event & opportunity:

*Refugee Rights Day Panel: Acknowledging and Advancing Refugee Rights in Canada, Toronto, 4 April 2014 [info]

Cartagena+30: ACNUR Invita a Concurso para Periodistas [info]
- Competition for journalists to promote coverage of the Cartagena +30 process and raise awareness of refugee issues.  Submissions due 20 June 2014.

Publications:

Asylum in the United States: How a Finely Tuned System of Checks and Balances has been Effectively Dismantled (Center for Immigration Studies, March 2014) [text]

*"Exclusion from Refugee Protection: Hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada," CCR Chronicle, vol. 9, no. 1 (April 2014) [access]

HIRC Co-writes Amicus Brief on Gang-Based Asylum Case (HIRC Blog, March 2014) [text]

"Latin American Responses to Forced Migration: Experiences of Refugee Protection and Integration in the Region," Panel at Society for Latin American Studies 50th Anniversary Conference, London, 3-4 April 2014 [info]

"Persecuted, Discriminated, and Rejected: The Firm Resettlement Bar to Colombian Refugees Living in Ecuador," Roger Williams University Law Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2014) [full-text]

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Refugee Determination Process in Canada: Starting the Discourse, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 270 (UNHCR, March 2014) [text]

"Shifting Up and Back: The European Turn in Canadian Refugee Policy," Comparative Migration Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (April 2014) [open access]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (21 March 2014)

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