Regional Focus: Americas

Event:

Refugee Rights Day, 4 April 2016 [info]
- "[A]nniversary of the Supreme Court's 1985 Singh decision, which recognized that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects refugees' fundamental rights."

Publications:

Average Wait Time in Immigration Court Rises to 667 Days (TRAC, Feb. 2016) [text]

"Deported Roma Family is Allowed to Return to Canada in Groundbreaking Decision," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 68 (March 2016) [full-text]

The Easiest Office to Win Asylum, and Why You Shouldn’t Apply There (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

"A Guinean Refugee's Odyssey: In Re Jarno, the Biggest Asylum Case in U.S. History and What It Tells Us about Our Broken System," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 23, no. 4 (2009) [full-text via ImmigrationProf Blog]
- Part of the blog's "Throwback Thursday" series.

"Increased Central American Migration to the United States May Prove an Enduring Phenomenon," Migration Information Source, 18 Feb. 2016 [text]

They are Refugees: An Increasing Number of People are Fleeing Violence in the Northern Triangle (Center for American Progress, Feb. 2016) [text]

Understanding the Central American Refugee Crisis: Why They are Fleeing and How U.S. Policies are Failing to Deter Them (American Immigration Council, Feb. 2016) [text]

Why a Single Question Decides the Fates of Central American Migrants (NPR, Feb. 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (11 Feb. 2016)

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