Regional Focus: Americas

Region-specific sessions at "UNHCR at 70" virtual conference:

Contributions from the Cartagena Regime: Part 1 – International Protection & Part 2 – Durable Solutions and New Challenges, 19 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Sergio Vieira de Mello Academic Chair of the Federal University of ABC, Brazil, and sponsored by the Latin American Academic Network on the Law and Integration for Refugees.

North America within the global refugee regime, 21 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), Carleton Univ., Canada.

Realizing protection and solutions within North America, 21 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), Carleton Univ., Canada.

*Another event:

Panel discussion: Building Political Will in the Americas: An Opportunity for Global Leadership on Forced Displacement, 19 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Colombian refugees in Ecuador trapped in loops of poverty and insecurity," The New Humanitarian,13 Jan. 2021 [text]

Cooperation on refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: The ‘Cartagena process’ and South–South approaches (Thinking through the Global South, Jan. 2021) [text]

A New US Agenda for Central America (Project Syndicate, Jan. 2021) [access]

- Available in English, Arabic and Spanish.

*Trends in Brazil’s Practices of Refugee Protection: Promising Inspirations for the EU? (Asile Project Forum, Dec. 2020) [text]

Reports:

Manual para la orientación legal a personas solicitantes de la condición de refugiado, refugiadas y migrantes en Perú (Clínica Jurídica Pedro Arrupe S.J. para Migrantes y Refugiados et al., Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Note: This is the third update of the manual.

Venezuelan Migration and Refugee Crisis: Situation Report (OAS, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related media release.

Where Are Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees Going? An Analysis of Legal and Social Contexts in Receiving Countries (Center for Migration Studies, Jan. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Forgotten Emigration: Governmental Policies towards European Jewish Refugees in Ecuador and Colombia (1933-1945)," Cuadernos Judaicos, no. 37 (2020) [open access]

"Immigration, perceived discrimination and mental health: evidence from Venezuelan population living in Peru," Globalization and Health, 17:8 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"In limbo: Survey of impact of COVID-19 on Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tobago," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 13 Jan. 2021 [full-text via PUBMED]

"Incentivising Political Will for the Response to Internal Displacement: The Role of NGOs in Latin America," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

*"(In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 13 Dec. 2020 [open access]

"'Them', Venezuelans, and the crisis in Venezuela: discursive practices in the magazine Veja," Comunicação e Sociedade, vol. 38 (2020) [open access]

- Text available in English and Portuguese.

"Violence that builds sovereignty: the transnational violence continuum in deportation from the United States," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Dec. 2020 [free full-text]

- Focuses on deportees in Mexico.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (21 Dec. 2020)