29 January 2024

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"The Darién Gap migration crisis in six graphs, and one map," The New Humanitarian, 15 Jan. 2024 [text]

Internal Displacement in Colombia: Characterization and Relevant Research Findings (GPPR, Jan. 2024) [text]

A journey through borders: Understanding migration in Central America (Latin America and Caribbean Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Mexico: Reject Any New US Border Expulsion Deal (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2024) [text]

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

Reports:

VI Annual Meeting of the Comprehensive Regional Framework for Protection and Solutions (MIRPS), Panama City, 24 Jan. 2024 

Análisis de la Opinión Pública frente a la dinámica migratoria regional (Inter-American Development Bank, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluación Rápida de Evidencia sobre Riesgos de Protección de población migrante en Suramérica (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]
- The first report is available here.

Mechanisms for Accessing Legal Identity for Migrants in Central America, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (IOM, Jan. 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

Research for Advocacy & Systemic Change: A Ridiculously Simplified Guide to Intersectional & Decolonial Research + Examples (Mara Tissera Luna, Jan. 2024) [access via Google Drive]
- The examples provided focus on forced migration and intersectionality in Latin America.

Start Fund Project Recommendations for Central American Displacement and Migration Projects (Start Network, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- The Spanish version is available here.

Technical Group of the Protection Working Group (PWG) in Mexico: Protection Needs Overview (Danish Refugee Council & International Rescue Committee, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Access to HIV/STI testing among male and female Venezuelan migrants in Peru: evidence from a nationwide survey," BMC Public Health, 24:210 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

Investigaciones Posdoctorales sobre Migración, Asilo y Desplazamiento Interno (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Nov. 2023) [full-text]
- "Este libro es fruto de una nueva generación de jóvenes expertas y expertos en las diversas expresiones de las movilidades que comparten, a través de estas páginas, una pincelada de sus saberes y experticias. Son investigaciones desde las ciencias sociales y las humanidades que, mediante aproximaciones disciplinarias diversas, abordan una multiplicidad de problemas que forman parte de la agenda investigativa contemporánea."

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2023) [open access]
- "Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential." 
- A recent issue of the Americas Migration Brief provided links to the six chapters that focus on the Americas.

"El principio de convencionalidad: su existencia y aplicación  para la defensa constucional del derecho humano al asilo políco en Colombia," Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, vol. 54, no. 140 (2024) [open access]

"Trabajo Social y migración forzada: 85 años de intervención con refugiados y personas desplazadas desde México," Revista ACANITS: Redes Temáticas en Trabajo Social, vol. 3, no. 4 (2024) [open access]
- Article begins on p. 49.

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