Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda in the Americas." Submit abstracts by 20 December 2020.

Blog posts & press: 

El debido proceso legal: Un vacío de protección que experimentan los migrantes en Colombia (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

Searching for a counsel to go through the asylum process with: Criteria, challenges and consequences (RLI Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

*US$1.44 billion needed to support refugees and migrants from Venezuela amid COVID-19 (UNHCR & IOM, Dec. 2020) [text]

Venezuelans in South America: Applicability of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (RLI Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Cartagena Refugee Definition and Venezuelan Displacement in Latin America," International Migration, Early View, 2 Dec. 2020 [abstract]

- See also earlier related FMR article.

*"Political and Legal Responses to Human Mobility in South America in the Context of the Covid-19 Crisis. More Fuel for the Fire?," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 20 Nov. 2020 [open access]

"Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952," Canadian Jewish Studies = Études juives canadiennes, vol. 30 (2020) [open access]

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 28, no. 60 (Sept./Dec. 2020) [open access]

- Special dossier on "Mesoamerican Migrant Struggles and Migration," with 6 articles in Spanish or Portuguese. Another 8 articles are also included; these address a variety of issues including the Brazilian World War II Refugee Selection Commission in Europe, Venezuelans in Brazil, the Global Compact on Migration, among others.

Reports:

III Annual Report of the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS) 2020: Implementing the Global Compact on Refugees in Central America and Mexico (MIRPS, Dec. 2020) [access]

- Follow link for Spanish and English versions. See also related UNHCR press release, MIRPS concept notes, and the text of the San Salvador City Declaration recently adopted by MIRPS states.

COVID-19: Necesidades y prioridades humanitarias en el norte de centroamérica - El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras (OCHA, Nov. 2020) [text]

Critical Policy Advice for President-Elect Biden: Protecting the Forcibly Displaced in Central America (Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

Dangerous locations and protection risks reported by refugees and migrants in Guatemala and Mexico (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

From aid to empowerment: Addressing urban displacement in Colombia’s informal settlements (IDMC, Nov. 2020) [access]

- Follow link for English and Spanish versions of report.

Un nuevo camino a seguir: refuerzo del contexto de protección en México (Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (23 Nov. 2020)