Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunities:

IX Summit of the Americas, Los Angeles, 6-10 June 2022 [info]

- Note: A meeting to sign the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration will be held on the last day of the Summit. See also this related advocacy letter.

From Deterrence to Integration: Civil Society Voices on Migration Policy Challenges and Good Practices in the Americas, 7 June 2022 [info]

*Towards Regional Governance on Migration and Forced Displacement: A Side Event of the Ninth Summit of the Americas, 9 June 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Mexico: Asylum Seekers Face Abuses at Southern Border (Human Rights Watch, June 2022) [text]

"The Summit is a Great Chance for Better Cooperation on Migration," Americas Quarterly, 3 May 2022 [text]

The Summit of the Americas: Time to deal with Migration (World Refugee & Migration Council, June 2022) [text]

Summit of the Americas: Urgent Need for a Human Rights Centered Migration Policy (WOLA, June 2022) [text]

Western Hemisphere Migration is a Long-Term Challenge: A Summit Once Every Four Years is Inadequate (Just Security Blog, June 2022) [text]

Reports:

A Fractured Response: Policy Recommendations to Strengthen Regional Collaboration on Migration in the Americas (International Rescue Committee, June 2022) [text]

Mar Adentro: Migrantes y Náufragos en el Mar - Diagnóstico sobre migración irregular y el tráfico ilícito de migrantes por mar en México (IOM, Dec. 2021) [text]

Monitoreo de protección: Informe Frontera Norte (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Ecuador.

Resultados del Registro Migratorio de ciudadanos venezolanos en el Ecuador 2019-2020: características, condiciones, dinámicas y factores con perspectiva geográfica de la población objetivo (IOM, June 2022) [text]

Struggling to Survive: The Situation of Asylum Seekers in Tapachula, Mexico (WOLA, June 2022) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

Journal articles:

"Administrating Displaced People in Colombia through Humanitarian Government: Resilience and the Language of Compassion," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 4, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Chile’s Welcoming Approach to Immigrants Cools as Numbers Rise," Migration Information Source, 18 May 2022 [text]

"The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada," American Political Science Review, FirstView, 20 April 2022 [open access]

"Migrant shelters’ response to COVID-19: Comparative case study in four cities close to the Mexico-United States border," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 6 (June 2022) [open access]

"Symbolic refugee protection: explaining Latin America’s liberal refugee law," American Political Science Review (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"Understanding humanitarian localization in Latin America—as local as possible: but how necessary?," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:12 (June 2022) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (27 May 2022)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (27 May 2022)