Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Call for proposals: Establishing research chairs on forced displacement in South and Southeast Asia, and Central and South America [info]

- The submission deadline is 30 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

COVID-19 Vaccines for Displaced People in Latin America and the Caribbean (RI Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

Migrants Disappearing, Dying as US-Mexico Border Remains Closed (InSight Crime, July 2021) [text]

Refugees are at high risk of COVID-19 infection, but low priority for vaccines  (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Venezuelans.

Reports & journal articles:

Caracterización de la Migración Internacional en Guatemala (IOM, UNFPA & USAID, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Diasporic Palestinian Communities in Brazil and Hierarchies of Belonging," Revista Territórios e Fronteiras, vol. 13, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

"Fast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control," Social & Legal Studies, OnlineFirst, 10 May 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"Gang Membership in Central America: More Complex than Meets the Eye," Migration Information Source, 26 Aug. 2021) [text]

Humanitarian Protection in the Region: A State of Emergency (North and Central American Task Force on Migration, July 2021) [text]

- See also Spanish version. 

"Mirrored Social Representations of Canadian Caseworkers with Migratory Paths Intervening with Refugees in the Host Country," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 16 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

No tengo donde ir: Migrantes y refugiados en asentamientos irregulares (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit & Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Pies para qué tengo: Testimonios de personas venezolanas refugiadas y migrantes (UNHCR & Red CLAMOR, Nov. 2020 [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (31 July 2021)