14 April 2025

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

As Criminal Violence Grows, Ecuadorians Escape Internally: A Government Stance on Displacement is Pending (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]
- Part of a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence." Note: A compilation of all five contributions is available here, along with a call for future contributions to the series.

"As Trump ends asylum, is Mexico a viable alternative for those left stranded?," The New Humanitarian, 3 April 2025 [text]
- See also an earlier related TNH article.

Crossing the entire world for a better life: Extracontinental migration in the Americas (Doctors without Borders, April 2025) [text]

Governance in Transit: Migration Control and Cartel Power in the Darién Gap (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]

"How Latin American countries should counter Trump’s migration crackdown," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2025 [text]

"How Trump's US aid freeze stymied Colombia’s immigration system," Al Jazeera, 17 March 2025 [text]

Letters to the governments of Costa Rica and Panama urge countries to address injustices relating to U.S. return scheme (Human Rights First, et al., March 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

"Rise in asylum seekers crossing into Quebec as U.S. revokes status of thousands of migrants," CBC News, 8 April 2025 [text]

"What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced," Time Magazine, 21 March 2025 [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

De la hospitalidad al control: ¿Securitización de la migración en Perú? (Encuentros Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence from U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean," Demography, Advance Publication, 26 March 2025 [open access]

"Emotion regulation and attitudes toward FARC-EP ex-combatants and Venezuelan migrants: effects of a reappraisal training," BMC Psychology, 13:359 (April 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Colombia.

"Health in Transit: A case study on the migratory trajectories of Haitian populations in Chile and Mexico," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Impacts of COVID-19 on Venezuelan migrants in the Andean corridor," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

Observaciones: Visita de trabajo a Panamá (Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, April 2025) [text]
- "El objetivo de la visita fue observar la situación de las personas en el contexto de la movilidad humana en tránsito por Panamá, desde un enfoque regional, así como recibir información sobre las medidas adoptadas por el Estado para la protección de los derechos humanos de esta población."

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