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05 July 2021

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Venezuelan Migrants and Trinidadians Hit by the Pandemic (IOM Storyteller, June 2021) [text]

The Sound of Innovation: We Will Move Forward (UNHCR Innovation Service, June 2021) [text]
- "Case studies from UNHCR’s Ecuador and Mexico operations on the use of music to communicate for social change."

UN High Commissioner for Refugees praises Latin America for its commitment to the inclusion of all those in need of protection (UNHCR, June 2021) [text]
- See also related news story.

UNHCR and IOM celebrate the commitment of the international community to mobilize funds for refugees and migrants from Venezuela: Joint UNHCR/IOM press release (June 2021) [text]

"Where’s the aid for Mexicans displaced by gang violence?," The New Humanitarian, 1 July 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Estudio de georreferenciación y caracterización de la población venezolana en situación de movilidad humana y población receptora en Ecuador y Perú (Plan International, COPEME & Fundación Terranueva, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

GIFMM Support Plan for the Implementation of the Temporary Protection Status for Venezuelans (GIFMM & R4V, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Colombia.

"A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990-2020," International Migration Review (Forthcoming, 2021) [postprint]

Migration in 2021: Has anything really changed? (Global Response Management, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Mexico.

"A Peculiar Leap in the Protection of Asylum Seekers: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Jurisprudence on the Protection of Asylum Seekers," The Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 16 (2021) [open access]

Protección de personas apátridas y refugiadas: Progresos y desafíos a 30 años de la creación del Mercosur (UNHCR, June 2021) [text]

"Solidarity and Neoliberalism in the Implementation of Mexico’s Refugee, Complementary Protection and Political Asylum Law (2014–2019)," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, 2021) [open access]

Update: Grave Dangers Continue for Asylum Seekers Blocked in, Expelled to Mexico by Biden Administration (Human Rights First, June 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

Online Introduction to Refugee Studies (Centre for Refugee Studies) [access]
- This series offers "an introduction to refugee studies. The videos will be of interest to people looking to learn about refugee issues, including people wanting to learn about how these issues play out in the Canadian context."

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