Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Annual Statistical Report: Experience from the Americas (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Canada’s Role as a Champion Country for the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration (RLI Blog, March 2022) [text]

"From conflict victim in Colombia to persona non grata in Chile," The New Humanitarian, 3 March 2022 [text]

Mobility and confinement: The construction of a humanitarian border in Mexico (NCHS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Number of displaced Nicaraguans in Costa Rica doubles in less than a year (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Limeños y arequipeños ante la diáspora venezolana: representaciones estéticas y de comportamiento," Lengua y Migración = Language and Migration, vol. 13, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on Peru.

"Metáforas, representación discursiva y migración venezolana en el Perú: hacia un análisis crítico-cognitivo del discurso de la prensa escrita peruana," Lengua y Migración = Language and Migration, vol. 13, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

"Participation as Confrontation: Resistance Within and Outside the Mesas de Participación Established for IDPs in Colombia," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 4 March 2022 [open access]

"Procesos de deportación de haitianos en Estados Unidos y República Dominicana," Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonatuas y Caminantes, vol.17 (2021) [open access]

Reports: 

Assistance needed and received by refugees and migrants in Mexico (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2022) [text]

Asylum and Internal Displacement: The Intertwining of Migrations in Colombia, RID Working Paper, no. 19 (Researching Internal Displacement, March 2022) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

Case for Support: Multi-country office in Panama (Belize, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, and southern Caribbean) (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Costa Rica Country Report (Refugee Response Index, July 2021) [text]

COVID-19 in the Americas: Listening to the most vulnerable - Community perceptions from migrants, refugees, host communities and indigenous populations (IFRC, March 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for summary and full report.

Impacts of displacement: Conflict and Violence in Quibdó and Caucasia, Colombia (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2022) [text]

Life out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Refugees, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9928 (World Bank, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia. See also related article.

Safety risks and dangerous locations reported by refugees and migrants in Mexico (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2022) [text]

Socioeconomic backgrounds of refugees and migrants surveyed in Colombia and Peru (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

UNHCR and the European Union launch 360-degree interactive film on Venezuelan displacement in Ecuador (UNHCR, March 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (14 Feb. 2022)