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23 May 2023

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunities:

Webinar: An Imperfect but Constructive Approach: Examining the Latin American and Caribbean Response to Venezuelan Displacement, 25 May 2023 [info]

Webinar: Scholars At-Risk: Hosting Practices in Canada, 26 May 2023 [info]

Short pieces:

The Americas at a Crossroads: IOM and UNHCR Call for a Collaborative Response to Refugees and Migrants - Joint Press Statement (May 2023) [text]

The Darien: Where Dread and Faith Collide for Migrants Betting on a Brighter Future (IOM, May 2023) [text]
- See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

"Gangs Out of Control," The New Humanitarian [access]
- Article series that "examines the spread of gangs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean... [and] lays out the scale of the problem, explores the humanitarian fallout, and points to some large gaps in the aid sector response."

"How the US-Mexico border became an unrelenting humanitarian crisis," The New Humanitarian, 10 May 2023 [text]

Peru: Renting housing to migrants should not be penalised, say UN experts (OHCHR, May 2023) [text]

**Visit the weekly Americas Migration Brief for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.

Reports:

The Implications of the Biden Asylum Rule in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, and the Northern Triangle Nations (National Immigration Forum, May 2023) [text]

Lives at Risk: Barriers and Harms as Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect (Human Rights First et al., May 2023) [text]

Profiling Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the Dominican Republic, Discussion Paper, no. 01008 (Inter-American Development Bank, May 2023) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

Journal articles:

"COVID-19 and Protracted Displacement: A Scoping Review of Migration Policies in Mexico and Central America," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 11 May 2023 [open access]

The Impact of Policy and Policy Communication on COVID-19 Vaccination Inequalities Among Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Interrupted Time-Series Analysis, Preprints with The Lancet, 18 May 2023 [preprint]

"Innovative strategies to remotely sample hard-to-reach populations: Assessing phone versus Internet respondent driven sampling approaches among Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia," American Journal of Epidemiology, Advance Articles, 16 May 2023 [postprint]

"México y los migrantes centroamericanos: la buena voluntad frente a la intransigencia estadounidense," Revista Humanismo y Cambio Social, no. 20 (2023) [open access]

"Staying Power: Strategies for Weathering Criminal Violence in Marginal Neighborhoods of Medellín and Monterrey," Latin American Research Review, FirstView, 28 April 2023 [open access]

"'We’re Looking for Support from Allah': A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Trauma and Religious Coping among Afghan Refugees in Canada Following the August 2021 Withdrawal," Religions, vol. 14, no. 5 (May 2023) [open access]

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