Regional Focus: Americas

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The Observatorio de Protección Internacional at the Universidad Iberoamericano has published various studies on Mexican asylum procedures. Follow this link for analyses of the Cartagena Declaration, gender as a ground for refugee status, international and refugee law, the refugee definition, and statelessness.

More publications:

"Here's How a Refugee Claim Gets Fast Tracked for Emergency Protection in Canada," CBC News, 17 Jan. 2019 [text]

Hope and Anguish in a Mexican Refugee Shelter: Researcher Records Stories of Central American Asylum Seekers (The Conversation, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Mexico Says Will Not Accept Return of At-risk U.S. Asylum Seekers," Reuters, 23 Jan. 2019 [text]

Regional Hearing: Human Rights Situation of the Persons That Make Part of the Migrant Caravan (Human Rights Brief, Feb. 2019) [text]

"The Repatriation Process in El Salvador and Arguments of Relocation in US Immigration Hearings," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 99 (Feb, 2019) [full-text]

The Ripple Effect: Economic Impacts of Internal Displacement - Lost Production Due to Internal Displacement: The 2017 Earthquake in Mexico (IDMC, Jan. 2019) [text]

Venezuelans:

Canada’s Disturbing Indifference to the Plight of Venezuelans (The Conversation, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Colombia’s Radical Plan to Welcome Millions of Venezuelan Migrants," The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2019 [text]

Creativity amid Crisis: Legal Pathways for Venezuelan Migrants in Latin America (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2019) [English text] [Spanish text]
- See also related video from report's launch event.

Forced into Illegality: Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago (Refugees International, Jan. 2019) [text]

Improving Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago’s Responses to Venezuela’s Migration Crisis, Washington, DC, 30 Jan. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for video. Note: Discussion doesn't start until about 27:45 into the video!

Joint Statement by UNHCR and IOM, by Eduardo Stein, Joint UNHCR-IOM Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants (UNHCR, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Rising Tensions as Colombia's Displaced Converge with Venezuelan Migrants," VOA News, 30 Jan. 2019 [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (18 Jan. 2019)

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