26 June 2024

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

159 Civil Society Organizations Endorse Recommendations for the Implementation of Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (CEDA, June 2024) [text]

Canada at a crossroads: Understanding the shifting sands of immigration attitudes (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]

"Cartagena +40: nueva hoja de ruta liderada por Chile," DW, 4 June 2024 [text]

"Hunger, healthcare, and schools: Reasons to leave Venezuela (along with a Maduro poll win)," The New Humanitarian, 25 June 2024 [text]

IACHR: States Must Strengthen National Protection Systems for Refugees (OAS, June 2024) [text]

"Will Mexico’s new president use the border as leverage?," The Dispatch, 6 June 2024 [text]

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

Reports:

Building on Regular Pathways to Address Migration Pressures in the Americas (Migration Policy Institute, June 2024) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

Costa Rica: Access to Protection (Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas, June 2024) [text]
- See key findings in the Americas Migration Brief.

Forced Migration in Canada (University of Ottawa, 2024) [text]
- "Forced Migration in Canada is intended to be a comprehensive repository of teaching and learning resources related to displacement to, and in, Canada, from colonization and slavery, to trafficking, statelessness and refugee protection and resettlement. In each section, we have compiled multimedia resources to introduce students, researchers and the general public to the key issues."

Imagining Brazil: Reasons to migrate, destination choice, and life in a new country in the accounts of Haitian migrants (MIDEQ, April 2024) [text]

Migrants in Colombia: Between government absence and criminal control (Washington Office on Latin America, June 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Situación humanitaria en Colombia 2023, CODHES Informa, no. 113 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Time is Now: Mexico Must Grant Haitians Refugee Protections under the Cartagena Declaration (CDH Fray Matías & NYU, April 2024) [access]
- Available in English, Spanish and Creole.

Violence-driven displacement in Mexico: Why including internally displaced persons in national statistics is necessary to inform a protection-based response (Joint Data Center, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Expanding the border: Increased securitisation and the proliferation of checkpoints at Mexico's southern border," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [text]

"The Importance of Administrative Appeals as Second Instance Bodies to Strengthen Migration and Asylum Systems," Refugee Law & Migration Studies Brief, vol. 1, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]
- Focuses on Costa Rica.

*"Mapping cooperation: insights into Colombia's humanitarian response to migration from Venezuela," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 21 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Peru’s Historical Anxiety about Asian Immigration May Have a Contemporary Twist," Migration Information Source, 20 June 2024 [text]

"Quality of life of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic," CSP: Cadernos de saúde pública, 40(6): e00147423 (June 2024) [open access]

"Resilience strategies ‘on the move:’ Navigating the border regime in Mexico and the US," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [text]

"The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad," Demography, vol. 61, no. 3 (June 2024) [open access]

Resource:

Cartagena +40: 40 aniversario de la Declaración de Cartagena sobre los Refugiados 1984-2024 (ACNUR) [access]
- "En 2024 se cumple el 40 aniversario de la Declaración de Cartagena, que dará lugar al proceso de Cartagena+40, por el cual los países de América Latina y el Caribe trabajarán conjuntamente hacia la adopción de un nuevo plan estratégico regional: la Declaración y el Plan de Acción de Chile 2024-2034."

*UPDATED

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