13 May 2024

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Research seminar: New perspectives on migrations in Latin America, Durham, UK, 23-24 May 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Cartagena +40: con la Declaración de Montevideo finalizó la primera reunión de Ciudades Solidarias en las Américas (ACNUR, April 2024) [text]
- Links to the "Declaración de Montevideo sobre Contribuciones de las Ciudades Solidarias al Plan de Acción de Chile (2024-2034)."

Chile: CIDH expresa preocupación por reformas migratorias que restringen el derecho al asilo (CIDH, May 2024) [text]

"Ecuador sues Mexico over asylum decision at World Court," Reuters, 29 April 2024 [text]
- See also related explainer.

"Lawless and neglected: Local Colombians see Darién influx as economic lifeline," The New Humanitarian, 1 May 2024 [text]
- See also related "first person" article.

Setting the record straight on refugee claims by international students (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

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

Journal articles:

"Borders and liminality in the right to health of migrants in transit: The case of Colchane in Chile and Necoclí in Colombia," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 9 (2024) [open access]

Cuadernos Intercambio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, vol. 21, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on migration in the Americas, including Haiti, Central America and Mexico.

"'Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …': Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Early View, 6 May 2024 [open access]

"'Humanitarian Corridors': Legal Scheme to Deter Venezuelans from Entering Ecuador?," International Journal of Legal Information, First View, 2 April 2024 [free full-text]

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