Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

*IDB and UNHCR join efforts to address forced displacement crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

*"Mexico Seeing Spike in Asylum Applications as Migrants Seek Alternative to Settling in U.S.," Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2021 [text]

Migration Insecurity in the Táchira (Venezuela) - Norte De Santander (Colombia) Border (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

North American Leaders Summit: Toward Regional Cooperation on Migration (WRMC News, Nov. 2021) [text]

- See also related 

Northern Triangle Migration Root Causes Strategy Requires the Right Blend of Sticks and Carrots (Lawfare Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for a regional mechanism to deal with unprecedented displacement in Mexico and Central America (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Charting a new regional course of action: the complex motivations and costs of Central American migration (MPI, WFP & MIT, Nov. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for report, executive summaries in English and Spanish, and a link to data visualizations on MIT's web site.

"Costa Rica Has Welcoming Policies for Migrants, but Nicaraguans Face Subtle Barriers," Migration Information Source, 5 Nov. 2021 [text]

An Exploration of the Root Causes of Forced Migration to the Southern Border (Hope Border Institute, Nov. 2021) [text]

Grandes movimientos de migrantes altamente vulnerables en las Américas provenientes del Caribe, Latinoamérica y otras regiones: Destinos en tránsito (IOM, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

*La huella visual y la voz: silencios y ruidos de la documentación mediática y audiovisual del desplazamiento forzado en Guerrero, México, Working Paper, no. 2 (Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]

Impactos de la COVID-19 en personas refugiadas y migrantes de Venezuela: Personas desalojadas, trabajadoras sexuales y pueblos indígenas (R4V & OEA, Oct. 2021) [text via Refworld]

"No Safety in 'Safe Third Countries': What Migration Ethics Can Tell Us about the Safe Third Country Agreements of North and Central America," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 9 (2021) [full-text]

Observatorio Latinoamérica del Desplazamiento Forzado: Una propuesta para contribuir a identificar y cerrar las brechas de protección y asistencia humanitaria ante la crisis de desplazamiento forzado en el corredor migratorio de Latinoamérica (Oxfam, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Los procesos consultivos regionales, la gobernanza migratoria y la contribución de las personas migrantes y refugiadas al desarrollo sostenible (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

Promoting Privacy, Fairness and the Open Court Principle in Immigration and Refugee Proceedings, Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (York Univ., Nov. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Protection of Haitians in human mobility: Inter-American solidarity, IACHR Resolution 2/2021 [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also Spanish version.

Regional Cooperation and Co-responsibility: Interim Report and Recommendations (North and Central American Task Force on Migration, Nov. 2021) [text]

- See also Spanish version and related news release.

"Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:52 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

Vulnerability in the Canadian Protection Regime, Research Report, no. 1 (VULNER Project, 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

World of Migration: Thinking Regionally to Act Locally in Immigration Policy, 24 Nov. 2021 [access]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (4 Nov. 2021)