29 July 2024

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Funding Opportunity for a Technical Secretariat to Support the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection [info]
- Proposal application submission deadline is 5 August 2024.

Short pieces:

"‘Entire social fabric’ unravelling in Haiti as displacement continues," UN News, 20 July 2024 [text]

IOM Launches a Data Portal for the Americas to Boost the Implementation of Los Angeles Declaration (IOM, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"No good options for Venezuelans as Maduro declared victor," The New Humanitarian, 29 July 2024 [text]

Panama Plans to Deport Irregular Migrants with Financial Support from the US (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2024) [text]

Paramilitary Resurgence Drives Mass Displacement in Chiapas (NACLA, July 2024) [text]

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

Reports:

Migration Does Not Start at the US Border: A Regional Approach to Managing Migration and Keeping People Safe (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]
- "In 2024, most migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border have come from six Latin American countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Colombia."

Un mundo mejor para la población migrante en América Latina y el Caribe (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo & UNDP, April 2024) [text via Refworld]

Recommendations on the inclusion of civil society in the implementation of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (June 2024) [text via WRC]

La reintegracion de personas retornadas a Venezuela: Tipos, vulnerabilidades y líneas de acción 
para la promoción de activos humanos (OVM, UNHCR, & UCAB, July 2024) [text]

Risks and protection through the most dangerous zones along transit migration routes in Central America and Mexico (IOM, 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Beyond the narrative: Colombia and the Venezuelan migrants," Global Policy, vol. 15, no. S3 (June 2024) [free full-text]

"The Burden and Risk Factors Associated with Infectious Diseases among Refugees in a Camp for Migrants in Porto Alegre: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Annals of Global Health, vol. 90, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Fronteras y migraciones dentro de ámbitos metropolitanos: Reflexiones a partir del caso de Colonia Juárez en Ciudad de México," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

"Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y caravanas: el fortalecimiento de la agencia migrante," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Mexico.

"The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement," World Development, vol. 182 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

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