Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Media & press releases:

"As Peru Tightens Its Border, Desperate Venezuelans Cling to Asylum Lifeline," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 16 June 2019 [text]

"A Look at Mexican Efforts to Stem Tide of Migrants," VOA News, 11 May 2019 [text]

"Mexico Aims to Avoid Tariffs with Potential Deal Limiting Migrants Going North, Allowing U.S. to Deport Central American Asylum Seekers," Washington Post, 6 June 2019 [text]

"Mexico Releases the Full Text of Trump’s Immigration 'Deal'," Vox, 15 June 2019 [text]

Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela Top 4 Million (UNHCR & IOM, June 2019) [text]

Support for Venezuelans ‘Needed More Than Ever,’ says Deputy High Commissioner (UNHCR, June 2019) [text]

*"Trump Hints at Guatemala Migrant Deal, Cuts Aid to Central America," VOA News, 18 June 2019 [text]

UNHCR Appeals for Regional Talks on Central America Displacement (UNHCR, June 2019) [text]

Blog posts & commentary:

The 1967 Refugee Protocol and the Challenges of a Regional Agreement in Latin America (Notice & Comment Blog, May 2019) [text]

El Proceso de Regularización Migratoria en Chile y el Riesgo de Expulsiones Masivas (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2019) [text]

A Growing Source of Canadian Asylum-seekers: US Citizens Whose Parents were Born Elsewhere (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

Migrants Will Pay the Price of Mexico’s Tariff Deal with Trump (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Waiting at the US-Mexico Border (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

Trump Wants to Change Mexican Migration Policy. Actually, He Should Learn from It (Niskanen Center Blog, May 2019) [text]  

*Why Donald Trump’s Threat of Tariffs to Stop Irregular Migration will not Work on Mexico (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (24 May 2019)

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