Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts/media:

America's Migratory Routes Reach Grim Milestone: Over 500 Deaths So Far in 2019 (IOM, Aug. 2019) [text]

Canada’s Quiet Complicity with the Increasingly Elastic US Border (LSE USAPP Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

How Many Central Americans are Traveling North? An Update (Lawfare Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

"How Trump’s Policies are Leaving Thousands of Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico," New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019 [text]

“Offshore Processing” in Guatemala: A Deeper Look at the U.S. Asylum Deal (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Statement from Santiago, Chile, by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (UNHCR, Aug. 2019) [text]

"This Country is Setting the Bar for Handling Migrants," The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2019 [text]

UN Refugee Chief Calls for More Engagement in Areas of Brazil Hosting Venezuelans (UNHCR, Aug. 2019) [text]

Reports/articles:

Internal Displacement in the Northern Triangle of Central America: Public Policy Guidelines ( Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.

Slow, Subjective and Stressful: A Guide to Canada's Asylum System, SPP Research Paper, vol. 12:24 (Univ. of Calgary, Aug. 2019) [text]

"Venezuelan Migration and the Border Health Crisis in Colombia and Brazil," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 12 Aug. 2019 [open access]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (6 Aug. 2019)

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