16 August 2024

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"Drowning, sexual violence, or robbery: Pick your route through the Darién," The New Humanitarian, 31 July 2024 [text]

Venezuela: Impacto de las elecciones en Venezuela sobre las personas refugiadas y migrantes (R4V, Aug. 2024) [text via Refworld]
- See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

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

New open access books:

Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement
(McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2024) [open access]
- "Offering a comprehensive resource in the growing field of migration studies, Forced Migration in/to Canada is a critical primer from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Researchers, practitioners, and knowledge keepers draw on documentary evidence and analysis to foreground lived experiences of displacement and migration policies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels. From the earliest instances of Indigenous displacement and settler colonialism, through Black enslavement, to statelessness, trafficking, and climate migration in today’s world, contributors show how migration, as a human phenomenon, is differentially shaped by intersecting identities and structures."

Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community (McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2024) [open access]
- "While migration has emerged as an only increasingly charged topic in public discourse, research has largely focused on North America’s lack of regional integration around mobility, often neglecting aspects of regional cooperation, hierarchy, and global engagement. Migration Governance in North America advances that conversation by examining the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent through contemporary analysis and historical context. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, contributors from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Europe unpack such issues as temporary labour mobility, border security, asylum governance, refugee resettlement, and the role of local actors and activists in coping with changing policies and politics."

Reports & journal articles:

Guarding the Gates: The Externalization of U.S. Migration Policies and Their Impact Across the Americas (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024)

Migration policy preferences and forms of trust in contexts of limited state capacity, NICEP Working Paper, no. 9 (June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Colombia and Peru.

Protection for Venezuelans in the spirit of Cartagena? An analysis of the spirit of Cartagena and how the protection policies for displaced Venezuelans in Brazil, Colombia and Peru held up to the standard of the spirit of Cartagena, RLI Working Paper, no. 69 (Refugee Law Initiative, 2024) [text]

"'Reborn in Guate': Making Resource Frontiers in Asylum in Guatemala’s Northern Petén," Migration Politics, vol. 3, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Research with Refugee Populations in North America: Applying the NIH Guiding Principles for Ethical Research," Ethics & Human Research, vol. vol. 46, no. 4 (July-Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Shifting perceptions on migration: insights and strategies from Latin America and the Caribbean," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 12.

"Transcontinental trajectories: Exploring Russian war-induced migration dynamics in Brazil," International Migration, Early View, 9 Aug. 2024 [open access]

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