Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

The Health Crisis on the Northern Mexico Border: A Report (Refugee Watch Online Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Implementation of Safe Third Country Agreement Held to Violate Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms—So Why Will Prior U.S. Asylum Claimants Be Denied a Hearing at the Refugee Protection Division in Canada Even After This Takes Effect? (Insightful Immigration Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"UN Refugee Agency to Install Housing Units in Mexico," AP News, 27 July 2020 [text]

Unprotected on Both Sides of the Border: Nicaraguans during the Pandemic (RLI Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"What Migrants Face as They Journey through the Deadly Darien Gap," PBS Newshour, 12 Aug. 2020 [text]
- The Darien Gap is "a wild, lawless stretch straddling Colombia and Panama." See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Reports & journal articles:

*"The Application of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees to Venezuelans in Brazil: An Analysis of the Decision-making Process by the National Committee for Refugees," Latin American Law Review, no. 5 (2020) [open access]

“El Asilo Diplomático y el Caso Alan García,” Revista Peruana de Derecho Internacional, vol. 70, no. 164 (Enero-Abril 2020) [open access]

Backgrounder: What is Canada’s Immigration Policy? (Council on Foreign Relations, Aug. 2020 [text]

Durable Solutions for Indigenous Migrants and Refugees in the Context of the Venezuelan Flow in Brazil (IOM, 2020) [text]

Estudios de Derecho, vol. 77, no. 169 (Jan.-June 2020) [open access]
- Includes thematic section on "Migraciones y derechos humanos," with 11 articles.

Estudios Políticos, no. 57 (Jan.-April 2020) [open access]
- Includes thematic section on "Movilidades forzadas y dinámicas transfronterizas en América Latina," with 5 articles including one on Central American asylum seekers in Mexico.

"'The only thing one can do in America is emigrate': South American Responses to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis," Flux: International Relations Review, vol. 10 (2020) [open access]

"Purity and Mixture in the Category of Refuge in Brazil," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 8 April 2020 [full-text via LEM]

Socio-Economic Profile of Refugees in Brazil: Subsidies for Policy Making (ACNUR & Sérgio Vieira de Melo Chairs, Aug. 2019) [text]

Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales, NE no. 6 (2020) [open access]
- Special issue on "Desafios migratórios contemporâneos = Contemporary migratory challenges," with 15 articles. Most focus on migration issues in the Americas.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (6 Aug. 2020)