Regional Focus: Americas

Asylum Applications by Venezuelans Soar to Over 400,000 (UNHCR, March 2019) [text]

At a Glance: The Use of Profiling in El Salvador (JIPS, Feb. 2019) [text]

"The Battle of Numbers: Refugee Protection, Race, and Neoliberal Politics of Bureaucratic Efficiency," Oñati Socio-legal Series (Forthcoming, 2019) [open access]
- Focuses on refugee claim processing in Canada.

Chile and Migration: The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and More (ImmigrationProf Blog, March 2019) [text]

Closing the Canada-U.S. Asylum Border Agreement Loophole? Not So Fast (The Conversation, March 2019) [text]

Costa Rica: Authorities Must Guarantee the Human Rights of People Fleeing the Crisis in Nicaragua (Amnesty International, March 2019) [text]

Informe Preliminar sobre la Crisis de Migrantes y Refugiados Venezolanos en la Región (Organization of American States, March 2019) [Spanish text] [English text]

"It’s So Dangerous to Police MS-13 in El Salvador That Officers are Fleeing the Country," Washington Post, 3 March 2019 [text]

Lost Production Due to Internal Displacement - Cuba, 2008: Hurricane Ike (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2019) [text]
- Part of the thematic series, "The Ripple Effect: Economic Impacts of Internal Displacement."

"Protection and Reintegration: Mexico Reforms Migration Agenda in an Increasingly Complex Era," Migration Information Source, 7 March 2019 [text]

*Research in Brief: Venezuelan Survival Migration as a Development Opportunity, Research Brief, no. 12 (Refugee Studies Centre, March 2019) [text]

"Special Report: Immigration Law," LawNow: Relating Law to Life in Canada, vol. 43, no. 4 (March-April 2019) [full-text]
- Special section with four articles: a review of immigration law in Canada, an analysis of the U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement with Canada, a report on the use of AI in the immigration/refugee system, and a summary of research on discriminatory immigration policies.

"Transición de los Refugiados Colombianos en Ecuador: Una Nueva Fase del Fenómeno Migratorio," OASIS, no. 29 (Enero-Junio 2019) [open access]

*Venezuelan Refugees: The Ecuador/Colombia Border - Findings and Recommendations (U.S. Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, March 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (6 March 2019)

Tagged Publications.