19 March 2025

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Talk: Mapping Scenarios: Responding to the Current Migration Patterns in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, Baltimore, MD, 8 April 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Brazil Advances in Building a National Policy for Refugees and Migrants (Refugees International, Feb. 2025) [text]

Costa Rica: Allow Deported Migrants to Seek Asylum (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [text]

"Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border," Latin America Brief, 14 March 2025 [text]

"They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama," AP News, 12 March 2025 [text]

"The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations," AP News, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

Violence Triggers Record Displacements in Port-au-Prince: Over 60,000 People in a Month (IOM, March 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Análisis de los indicadores de gobernanza de la migración a nivel regional (IOM, 2025) [text]

Análisis regional de necesidades de ayuda legal: Colombia, México, Perú, Venezuela, Guatemala y Honduras, Nov. 2023-Oct. 2024 (Danish Refugee Council, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Haiti: Haitians deported to Haiti — Profiles, migration experience and intentions of Haitians deported in 2024 (IOM, March 2025) [text]
- Also available in French.

Internal Displacement Caused by Violence Perpetrated by Organised Criminal Gangs and Networks: Drivers and Dynamics (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]
- Second contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia en ocho años de posacuerdo (2016-2024), CODHES Informa, no. 118 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Feb. 2025) [text via Refworld]

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Costa Rica: Logros del ACNUR en 2024 (UNHCR, 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Immigrants’ Barriers to Accessing Social Policy in Argentina and Chile," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Latin American Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 2 (March 2025) [contents]
- Special issue on "Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses." The original CFP provides additional information.

"A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [free full-text]

"'Operation Welcome': Humanitarian Pathway and Admission Applied to the Reception of Venezuelan Migrants in Brazil," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]

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