Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Request for comments: Declaration of the Academy in the Framework of Cartagena+40 = Declaração da Academia no marco de Cartagena+40 = Declaración de la Academia en el marco de Cartagena+40 

- Email cartagena40.academia@gmail.com for more info and to request copies of the updated texts of the Declaration in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Submit comments in English here, in Portuguese here, and in Spanish here by 30 September 2023.

Short pieces:

"How aid workers are learning to adapt to gang violence in Honduras," The New Humanitarian, 22 Aug. 2023 [text]

Migrants on the move: In search of stability and safety in the Americas (Doctors without Borders, Sept. 2023) [text]

Safe Third Country Agreement Expansion Causes Asylum Seekers to Explore New Routes (Wilson Center Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Trinidad and Tobago: Authorities must stop deporting refugees and asylum seekers (Amnesty International, Aug. 2023) [text]

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

Reports:

2022 Americas Overview of Missing Migrants Data (IOM, Aug. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for summary in English and full report in Spanish. See also related press release.

Critical Needs in the Americas (UNHCR, Aug. 2023) [Eng. text] [Sp. text]

- See also related press release.

Historias migratorias de los venezolanos que vuelven al pais: La entrevista narrativa como objeto para su comprensión (ACNUR & Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Aug. 2023) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for summary and full report.

Informe del ejercicio de caracterización del desplazamiento interno en Chihuahua (ACNUR, May 2023) [text]

RMNA 2023: Refugee and Migrant Needs Analysis (R4V, ) [access]

- Follow link for summary, full report and other data. See also related press release.

Journal articles:

"Counter-Archive as Methodology: Activating Oral Histories of the Contested Canada-US Border," ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, vol. 22, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

"La población colombiana con necesidades de protección internacional y los planes regionales de respuesta," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 31, no. 68 (2023) [open access]

"Sin of Omission: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 60, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (16 Aug. 2023)