04 November 2021

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

CFP: Laws [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Vulnerability and the Legal Protection of Migrants: A Critical Look at the Canadian Context." The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 December 2021.

Blog posts & press:

"Key Central American migration route grows deadlier as numbers crossing soar," The New Humanitarian, 7 Oct. 2021 [text]

Predicting the Unpredictable: Preparing for Potential Future Scenarios (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Brazil.

UN agencies call for protection measures and a comprehensive regional approach for Haitians on the move: Joint statement by UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF, OHCHR (Sept. 2021) [text]

Reports:

African Migration through the Americas: Drivers, Routes, and Policy Responses (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2021) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

Diagnóstico de la cobertura mediática de la situación de personas refugiadas y migrantes (Universidad del Pacífico & UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Estudio de Opinión Sobre la Población Extranjera en el Perú (Universidad del Pacífico & UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Memo: Impacts of U.S. and Mexican migration enforcement on migrant and refugee rights in Mexico (Refugees International et al., Sept. 2021) [text]

No home away from home: Forced to flee their homeland, Venezuelan refugees and migrants now face widespread risk of eviction and homelessness in their new country (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [access]
- "A new data visualization...highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Venezuelan refugees and migrants... ." Available in English, French, Portuguese & Spanish.

Not safe anywhere: Haitians on the move need urgent international protection (Amnesty International, Oct. 2021) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

Venezuela emergencia humanitaria compleja: respuesta humanitaria, desafíos para la sociedad civil (WOLA, Nov. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for report in Spanish and English-language summary.

Books & journal articles:

"Haitian Migration through the Americas: A Decade in the Making," Migration Information Source, 30 Sept. 2021 [text]

"Lost at sea, saved by Allah: religious coping on a migrant journey from Cape Verde to Brazil," Mental Health, Religion & Culture, vol. 24, no. 7 (2021) [ResearchGate]

Migraciones y Desplazamientos Forzados: Nuevas Aproximaciones y Contribuciones al Estudio de la Migración Contemporánea
(Ariadna Ediciones, 2021) [open access]
- "This book is the result of the academic work of young researchers graduated from Analysts in Politics and International Affairs at the University of Santiago de Chile, who have found in human movements a place to develop their first approaches to research and who represent an interest in the theme of the new generations."

Multimedia:

s, M, l, xl ¿Cómo es la bienvenida de los migrantes en las ciudades de tamaño mediano en la región?, 20 Sept. 2021 [access]

The Venezuela Briefing: The Response to Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees in Colombia and Brazil, 28 Oct 2021 [access]

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