Regional Focus: Americas

Publications:

2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview: Haiti (OCHA, Jan. 2019) [text]

Briefing: Haiti’s New Crisis and the Humanitarian Risks (IRIN, Feb. 2019) [text]

"The Deported Americans," California Sunday Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019 [text]

Expanding Operations in Central America 2019 (UNHCR, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*The Global Compact for Refugees as a Soft Law Instrument: Lessons from the Application of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees in Mexico (RLI Blog, March 2019) [text]

"The Migrant Caravan: Made in USA," New York Review of Books, 7 March 2019 [text]

Migration and the ‘Rise of the Right’ in South America: Is There an Increasing Anti-immigration Sentiment in the Southern Cone? (Debate Migration Blog, Feb. 2019) [text]

Monitoreo de Protección en Ciudad Hidalgo, México (UNHCR, Feb. 2019) [text]
- See also related press release.

The Other North American Border Panic: Detention, Deportation, Death in Canada (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2019) [text]

Protection Needs and Risks of Refugees and Migrants Traveling in Caravans: Recommendations to the Government of Mexico (Women's Refugee Commission, Jan. 2019) [text]

Report of the Independent Review of the Immigration and Refugee Board: A Systems Management Approach to Asylum (Govt. of Canada, April 2018) [text]

Québec's Trump-like Immigration Policies Contradict Canada's Welcoming Image (The Conversation, Feb. 2019) [text]

"Transnational Violence against Asylum-Seeking Women and Children: Honduras and the United States-Mexico Border," Human Rights Review, Latest Articles, 11 Feb. 2019 [open access]

Multimedia:

A New Migration Policy for A New Era: A Conversation with Mexico's Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Corder = Una nueva política migratoria para una nueva era: Una conversación con la Secretaria de Gobernación Olga Sánchez Cordero, Washington, DC, 28 Feb. 2019
-  Follow this link for original video, which includes English introduction and presentation in Spanish, and this link for version with simultaneous English interpretation.

Venezuelans: 

Análisis de las Encuestas de Monitoreo de Flujos de Nacionales Venezolanos en Sudamérica: Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay 2018 (IOM, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Information Needs Assessment: Venezuelan Migration in Northern Brazil (UNHCR & REACH, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

It’s Time to Treat Venezuela Like a Protracted Refugee Crisis (Refugees Deeply, Feb. 2019) [text]

Needs Assessment Report - Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia: Expansion (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Venezuela in Crisis: The Plight of Venezuelan Refugees (Center for Migration Studies, Feb. 2019) [text]

The Venezuelan Exodus (Council on Foreign Relations, March 2019) [text]

Venezuelan Outflow Continues Unabated, Stands Now at 3.4 Million (UNHCR & IOM, Feb. 2019) [text]

Why Venezuelan Migrants Need to be Regarded as Refugees (IRIN, Feb. 2019) [text]

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (4 Feb. 2019)

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