Regional Focus: Americas

Events & opportunities:

Conference: Shifting Landscapes of Asylum in North America, Cambridge, MA, 2-3 May 2016 [info]

Consultancy: Consultoría para la elaboración de material audiovisual, Erradicación de la apatridia proyecto [info]
- Apply by 6 May 2016.

Call for videos: Festival do Minuto [info]
- Submit one-minute videos relating to asylum by 31 May 2016.

Publications:

"Commentary: Fractured Families: US Asylum Backlog Divides Parents and Children Worldwide," Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, OnlineFirst, 14 April 2016 [free full-text]

FY 2015 Statistics Yearbook (U.S. Dept. of Justice, April 2016) [text]

Haiti: 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan (January-December 2016) (OHCA, April 2016) [text]

In the Balance: Backlogs Delay Protection in the U.S. Asylum and Immigration Court Systems (Human Rights First, April 2016) [text]

"Multicultural Media Use and Immigrant Settlement: A Comparative Study of Four Communities in Ottawa, Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, OnlineFirst, 26 April 2016 [abstract]
- See also related journal article published in 2015.

Myths and Facts on Refugees, Migration, and Humanitarian Assistance (U.S. Dept. of State, April 2016) [text]

"States' Rights and Refugee Resettlement," Minnesota Journal of International Law (Forthcoming, 2016) [eprint via SSRN]

Un/Wanted? Canada and the Resettlement of Chilean, Indochinese and Somali Refugees (Pier 21 Blog, April 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (7 April 2016)


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