16 December 2021

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Amid rising needs, partners seek US$1.79bn for Venezuelan refugees and migrants: Joint UNHCR/IOM Press release (Dec. 2021) [text]

Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement and the Refugee Convention (MJIL Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

The Long Shadow of 9/11: Canada and Migration Law, Two Decades Later (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2021) [text]

On the Perverse Trinity from which Central American Families Flee: State, Market, and Patriarchal Violence (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

Report by Espacio Migrante and Haitian Bridge Alliance Recommends New Approach to Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Tijuana (RI Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

The right to food and housing for Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): geographical distance does not forcibly mean different situations (AfricLAW Blob, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Access to Justice for Refugees: How Legal Aid and Quality of Counsel Impact Fairness and Efficiency in Canada's Asylum System (York Univ. & Ryerson Univ., Dec. 2021) [text]

Análisis de la garantía de derechos a la educación, salud e inclusión laboral de la población migrante de Venezuela en Colombia (Danish Refugee Council, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Challenges in refugee protection and non-refoulement in Tapachula, Mexico: A due process analysis (Danish Refugee Council & Jesuit Refugee Service, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.

Getting it together: Extra-regional migration in South, Central and North America and the need for more coordinated responses (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

Informe Anual del Marco Integral Regional para la Protección y Soluciones: MIRPS 2021 (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Informe de resultado: Consultas comunitarias para la identificación de necesidades y propuestas de respuesta (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ecuador.

La respuesta del ACNUR para aprovechar una oportunidad histórica para los refugiados y migrantes venezolanos en Colombia (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Searching for Missing Migrants in Central and North America: Five Good Practices of Civil Society Organizations (IOM, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.

"Si no es por pura necesidad": Muertes y desapariciones en trayectos migratorios en Norte y Centroamérica (IOM, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also English version.

Journal articles:

"Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s," Past & Present, Advance Articles, 22 Nov. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Jamaica.

"Covid-19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster," Disasters, Early View, 7 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"Extraregional Migratory Flows in Transit as Complex Unbounded Emergency (Risk): Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Lessons in Costa Rica," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 8 Dec. 2021 [open access]

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