15 February 2024

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Haiti: More than 60% of forced displacements happened in 2023, a year of growing brutality (IOM, Jan. 2024) [text]

The migratory implications of Ecuador’s crisis (Americas Migration Brief, Jan. 2024) [text]

The term ‘refugee’ should be replaced by the more inclusive term ‘forced migrant’ (LinkedIn, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Peru.

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

Reports:

ABC: Ley para la prevención, atención y protección de las personas desplazadas internamente en Honduras, Decreto 154 de 2022 (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for an FAQ and the complete text of Honduras’ internal displacement decree.

Análisis del acceso al permiso temporal de permanencia, Informe no. 1 (Danish Refugee Council & Encuentros SJM, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

México y los exiliados que desplazó la violencia del nuevo siglo, RID Working Paper, no. 39 (Researching Internal Displacement, Jan 2024) [text]

A ‘safe haven’ for refugees? Canada’s balancing act between promise and pressure (Clingendael, Feb. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Consideraciones sobre la evolución jurídica del concepto de refugiado," Agenda Internacional, vol. 30, no. 41 (2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Venezuelans.

"Espera, vida cotidiana y subjetividad en población transmigrante en la frontera sur de México," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 15 (2024) [open access]

*Huellas de la Migración, vol. 8, no. 15 (2023) [open access]
- Mix of articles focusing primarily on Mexico.

"Joining a migrant caravan: herd behaviour and structural factors," Third World Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 6 (2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Central Americans. 

"Migrants in Waiting in Mexico," Current History, vol. 123, no. 850 (Feb. 2024) [free full-text]

"Persistent Discord: The Adjudication of National Security Deportation Cases in Canada (2018–2020)," Dalhousie Law Journal (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"El rol de las organizaciones no gubernamentales en la respuesta a la migración venezolana en Colombia," Desafíos, vol. 35, Spec. iss. (2023) [open access]

Salud Pública, vol. 66, no. 2 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Movilidad, migración y salud en el contexto de la pandemia por Covid-19." Focuses on Mexico.

"'Tangled times': Central American refugee perspectives on the long Cold War," Cold War History, Latest Articles, 8 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Salvadorans.

Resource:

Documentation from Cartagena and CIREFCA Conventions dataset (European Univ. Institute) [access]
- "The dataset curated for this study is an extensive compilation of archival materials sourced primarily from UNHCR, encompassing minutes, pamphlets, documents, personal letters, and reports related to the Cartagena Convention of 1984 and the CIREFCA Convention of 1989."

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