Regional Focus: Americas

Event:

International Solidarity Conference on the Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis, Brussels, 28-29 October 2019 [info]
- Follow link for the announcement; no other details are available yet. To be co-hosted with UNHCR and IOM.

Blog posts & media:

"How Mexico is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us," American Prospect, 20 Sept. 2019 [text]

UN Refugee Chief in Mexico Hears Stories of Hope and Despair from Central American Refugees, Calls for More Support for Refugee Response (UNHCR, Oct. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Communication, Community Engagement and Migration: Challenges of the Crisis in Venezuela (DAHLIA, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Investing in the Neighborhood: Changing Mexico-U.S. Migration Patterns and Opportunities for Sustainable Cooperation (Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

Migración Forzada de Personas Nicaragüenses a Costa Rica (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A 'Migrant Registration Framework': Counting Venezuelan Immigrants in Trinidad & Tobago," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 8, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

Normas Mínimas desde la Perspectiva Psicosocial para los Procesos de Búsqueda de Personas Migrantes Desaparecidas: Mesa de Discusión en Centroamérica y México 2016-2019 (ICRC, Sept. 2019) [text]

Update on UNHCR’s Operations in the Americas (EXCOM, Sept. 2019) [text]

Venezuelan Migration in Brazil: An Analysis of the Interiorisation Programme (UNHCR et al., July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Venezuelan Migration in Brazil: Socio-economic and Vulnerability Profiling of Persons of Concern in Pacaraima, Boa Vista and Manaus (UNHCR et al., July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Venezuelans on Foot: An Insight into the Last Wave of Venezuelan Migration (Xchange, Sept. 2019) [text]

Audiovisual media:

The Colombian Response to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis: A Dialogue with Colombia’s Migration Czar, Washington, DC, 27 Sept. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for video.

Invertir en el Vecindario: Cambios en los Patrones de Migración Entre México y Estados Unidos y Oportunidades para una Cooperación Sostenible, Mexico City, 26 Sept. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for video. See also related report above.

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- Regional Focus: Americas (19 Sept. 2019)

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