07 February 2023

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Americas Migration Brief [info]
- "News and analysis related to migration from across the Americas and Caribbean." Browse current issues or sign-up for free subscription.

Migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase — but false perceptions endure anyway (The Conversation, Jan. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Chile.

Number of Migrants Who Embarked on the Dangerous Darien Gap Route Nearly Doubled in 2022 (IOM, Jan. 2023) [text]
- See also related Radio Free Asia article, "'We're all fleeing persecution': Chinese asylum-seekers head to US via Darién Gap."

Venezuelans’ Brave and Perilous Journey through Ecuador (IOM, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Why Afghan refugees in Brazil are making dangerous US journeys," The New Humanitarian, 2 Feb. 2023 [text]

New open access book:

Asylum and Resettlement in Canada: Historical Development, Successes, Challenges and Lessons
(Genova Univ. Press, Dec. 2022) [open access]
- "Canada is considered the world leader in the protection of refugees. Notwithstanding this generally positive perception, the Canadian protection system exhibits a series of deficiencies, ranging from detention policies and deportation in the case of asylum seekers, down to the integration obstacles and other associated challenges encountered by resettled refugees. In addition, other challenges including violence, vulnerability, denial of rights, and growing hostility toward migrants and refugees undermine the overall health and image of the system."

Reports & journal articles:

Claim Types in Canada’s Refugee Determination System: An Empirical Snapshot (2013-2021), Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (York Univ., Jan. 2023) [text]

Conferencia Regional sobre Migración (CRM) = Regional Conference on Migration 2022 (Refworld) [access]
- "La Conferencia Regional sobre Migración (CRM), conocida como Proceso Puebla, fue creada en febrero de 1996 en ocasión de la Cumbre Presidencial Tuxtla II con el fin de coordinar políticas y promover la cooperación sobre migración entre sus once Países Miembros: Belice, Canadá, Costa Rica, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y República Dominicana. La CRM cumple funciones como foro para la discusión abierta de temas migratorios regionales y el intercambio de información y experiencias para alcanzar mayor coordinación y cooperación en la región y busca la unión entre países para proteger los derechos humanos de los migrantes y crear una red de leyes migratorias coherentes y adecuadas, además de reforzar los vínculos entre migración y desarrollo." Follow link to access relevant conference documents.

Immigration policy ‘on the fly’: A critical review of pandemic policymaking in Canada, Working Paper, no. 13 (Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Nov. 2022) [text]

Mapping Canada's Refugee Determination System: 1950-2020 (PROTECT Project, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Migrant Visibility, Agency, and Identity Work in Hospitality Enterprises," Migration and Society, Online First, 1 June 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Brazil. 

La opinión pública respecto de la migración en América Latina y el Caribe (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Jan. 2023) [text via Refworld]

"The Power of Categorization: Reflections on UNHCR's Category of 'Venezuelans Displaced Abroad’," Chapter in Measuring Migration Conference 2022: Conference Proceedings (Transnational Press London, Dec. 2022) [open access via CEEOL]

"Refugeehood Reconsidered: The Central American Migration Crisis," Submitted to Problema anuario de filosofía y teoría del derecho, 18 Jan. 2023 [preprint]

Reunión Ministerial en Lima acerca de la Declaración de Los Ángeles sobre Migración y Protección, 6 Oct. 2022 [text]

"Social cohesion and attitudinal changes toward migration: A longitudinal perspective amid the COVID-19 pandemic," Frontiers in Sociology, 23 Jan. 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on Chile.

Multimedia:

La protection des réfugié.e.s au Canada [access]
- "Une série de vidéos pédagogiques sur les migrations forcées au Canada," from Prof. Christina Clark-Kazak at the Univ. of Ottawa.

Resource:

COVID 19 Immigration Policy Tracker [access]
- Database that "codifies almost 400 administrative actions related to borders and immigration that were implemented by the Canadian government since January 2020."

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