Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Could a Migrants’ Bill of Rights Provide a Blueprint for Migration Policy in the Americas? (Just Security Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

"COVID-19 fuels growing conflict and displacement in Colombia," The New Humanitarian, 10 Dec. 2020 [text]

Deleted Emails, Fraudulent Documents, and Maximum-Security Prisons: A Canadian Case Shows the Illiberalism of Deportation (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

"Honduran storm survivors form US-bound migrant caravan," The New Humanitarian, 11 Dec. 2020 [text]

No Rights: Mexican Airports as Unprotected Spaces for Asylum Seekers (Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*Análisis comparativo del Monitoreo de Flujo de la población venezolana en Ecuador 2018-2019 (IOM, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Construcción de un nuevo sistema migratorio regional: Redefiniendo la cooperación entre Estados Unidos con México y Centroamérica (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Note: The English version of this report was published last month.

De la represión al exilio: Nicaragüenses en Costa Rica - Caracterización sociodemográfica,

organizaciones y agenda de apoyo (Fundación Arias, April 2019) [text]

Families on the run: Why families flee from northern Central America? (UNHCR & UNICEF, Dec. 2020) [access]

- See also related press release. Also available in Spanish. 

"Ilegalizados en Ecuador, el país de la 'ciudadanía universal,'" Sociologias, vol. 22, no. 55 (Sept./Dec. 2020) [open access]

Lineamientos de respuesta en transporte humanitario para la atención a población refugiada y migrante (GIFMM & R4V, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Migración Mixta Urbana Estudio de Caso de Bogotá: Reporte Informativo (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Picture of Central American Mobilities: A Case Study of Refugees in Towns (Tufts Univ., Oct. 2020) [text]

Policy Brief: Addressing COVID-19 in fragile cities in the Northern Triangle of Central America (World Vision, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also Spanish version.

Venezuelan Migrants under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic Amid a Migration Crisis (Wilson Center, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (23 Nov. 2020)