04 May 2021

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Across Latin America, displaced people receive the COVID-19 jab (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

"Appeals court upholds Canada-U.S. asylum-seeker agreement," Reuters, 15 April 2021 [text]

"As desperation grows, Venezuelans look to a dangerous Caribbean escape route," The New Humanitarian, 28 April 2021 [text]
- See also related joint UNHCR/IOM press release.

"Indigenous refugees in Guatemala caught between COVID-19 and a volcano," The New Humanitarian, 22 April 2021 [text]

"Sending aid to Central America won’t stop migrants from coming," Vox, 30 April 2021 [text]

State control + human rights: Venezuelan displacement to Colombia and lessons from South American migration governance (MPC Blog, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The Compliance of Argentina’s Migration Law with Human Rights Discourse and Principles," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, Forthcoming 2021) [open access]

Guía sobre la colaboración de ACNUR con las instituciones nacionales de derechos humanos (ACNUR, Oct. 2020) [text]

"Human Mobility and Covid-19 in the Andean Region," E-International Relations, 27 April 2021 [open access]

Informes de Monitoreo de Protección (Danish Refugee Council; Jesuit Refugee Service, April 2021) 
- Reports available for GuatemalaMexico and Peru.

"Los migrantes irregulares en Colombia ante la crisis del Covid-19 ¿Los últimos en lista?," Chapter 9 in Direitos humanos dos migrantes e pandemia (Instituto Memória, 2021) [SSRN]

"Pedimos Posada: Local Mediators and Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico, 1978-1984," Historia Crítica, no. 80 (2021) [open access

*"El reto migratorio en la frontera Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, 2018-2019," Chapter 2 in Contextos y realidades ciudadanas:Bases para el desarrollo sostenible (Ediciones Universidad Simón Bolívar, Oct. 2020) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 41. 

"Solidarity, Social Justice, and Faith: Humanitarian Action on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Jan. 2021 [Yale Univ.]

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