Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Beyond the U.S.-Mexico Border: Migration Trends in the Americas, Explained (WOLA Commentary, May 2022) [text]

"Canada’s refugee road: a lifeline for some, a political headache for others," The Guardian, 25 May 2022 [text]

"'The invisibles': A Cuban asylum seeker’s dangerous odyssey," The New Humanitarian, 10 May 2022 [text]

Mexico’s Supreme Court Bans ‘Random’ Immigration Checks (Human Rights Watch, May 2022) [text]

Las personas desplazadas en México se enfrentan a una mayor inseguridad debido a la COVID-19, siendo la población hondureña y salvadoreña la que corre mayor riesgo = Displaced persons in Mexico face heightened insecurity due to COVID-19, with Hondurans and Salvadorans most at risk (UNHCR Blog, May 2022) [Sp. text] [Eng. text]

UNHCR urges Caribbean governments to protect refugees amid surge in risky sea crossings (UNHCR, May 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s," Past & Present, vol. 255, no. 1 (2022) [open access] 

- Focuses on "the case of three men of colour, the sons of Haitian refugees, deported from Jamaica in 1823."

"Externalización de las fronteras y bloqueo de los solicitantes de asilo en el norte de México," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 30, no. 64 (Jan. -April 2022) [open access]

"Return to Mexico: Exploring Reintegration Experiences," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 25 May 2022 [free full-text]

Studies in Social Justice, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Borders, Boundaries, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration to Canada."

"Threats from within and threats from without: Wet’suwet’en protesters, irregular asylum seekers and on-going settler colonialism in Canada," Settler Colonial Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Unsafe from Any Angle: Vulnerability-Generation on the US–Canada Border," Laws, vol. 11, no. 3 (May 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (5 May 2022)