Regional Focus: Americas

Events & opportunities:

CFP: Research Initiative on Young Children in Refugee Families [info]
- Submission deadline for paper proposals is 30 May 2014.

Child Migration and Central America: A Humanitarian Crisis, New York, 18 June 2014 [info]

CFP: History of Modern Humanitarian Action: Regional Conference on Latin America, Bogotá, 29-30 October 2014 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 15 July 2014.

Publications:

Beirut Embassy Bomber Gets US Asylum, New Book (Incorrectly) Claims (The Asylumist, May 2014) [text]

"Criminalizing Humanitarian Relief: Are U.S. Material Support for Terrorism Laws Compatible with International Humanitarian Law?", New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 46, no. 2 (Winter 2013) [full-text]

Guatemala: Background Paper, Country of Origin Series, no. RBA/COI/GUA/13/01 (UNHCR, Oct. 2013) [text]

Mexican and Central American Asylum and Credible Fear Claims: Background and Context (American Immigration Council, May 2014) [text]
- See also related comment.

Mexico's Displaced (RI Blog, May 2014) [text]

*Other Situations of Violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America: Invisible Borders, Vicious Spirals, and the Normalisation of Terror (ACAPS, May 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy (Congressional Research Service, March 2014) [text]

*updated

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