14 May 2025

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

*Americas Factsheet (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Costa Rica’s solidarity with refugees threatened by major funding cuts, warns UNHCR (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Cruelty is Not My Flag: Contesting Arbitrary Detention and Deportations from the Dominican Republic (International Detention Monitor, April 2025) [text]

From Hope to Harm: Asylum Restrictions and Violence Facing Migrants in Mexico (Immigration Lab Blog, May 2025) [text]

How Canada could modernize and streamline its asylum claims system (CCPA, May 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Compendio sobre buenas prácticas en derechos humanos, migración y refugio de las Instituciones Nacionales de Derechos Humanos (RINDHCA, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]
- "[U]na primera propuesta de las buenas prácticas de las Instituciones Nacionales de Derechos Humanos (INDH) que conforman el Grupo de trabajo sobre derechos humanos y población migrante y refugiada de la red. Estas INDH son Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay y Uruguay."

Derecho a defender los derechos de las personas en movilidad humana forzada en Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Venezuela, Brasil, México, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua (CODHES, April 2025) [access]

Un Hogar en México (ACNUR, April 2025) [access]

Joint Written Statement to the IACHR Rapporteurship on Human Mobility on Enforced Disappearances (Human Rights First et al., May 2025) [text]

Más que un refugio: Alojamiento, infraestructura y respuesta humanitaria en Ecuador 2023-2024 (ACNUR, April 2025) [text]

Las normativas de movilidad humana de los Estados de la región a la luz de los principios, objetivos y planes adoptados en la Conferencia Sudamericana de Migraciones (IOM, 2025) [text]

Regional Protection Monitoring in Latin America: Oct. 2024-Jan. 2025 (NRC, DRC & ProLAC, April 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.

Understanding the motivations and aspirations behind Colombian emigration (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

Journal articles & books/book chapters:

"The Interrupting Island: Trinidad and Tobago and the Shifting Migration Trajectories of Venezuelans," Chapter in New Directions in South-South Migration (Springer, April 2025) [open access]

Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada (Sciendo, May 2025) [open access]
- "The collection of essays in this volume of HJEAS Books explores the history of immigration to Canada from Central and Eastern Europe, spanning a period of approximately one hundred years and adding fresh perspectives and methodological approaches that enrich scholarly discourse in the field. The chapters written by authors from the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary highlight differences in the migration trajectories of people from various countries of the region, while also shedding light on the shared experience of immigrants of different time periods."

"Why Colombians’ Unease about Venezuelan Immigration Has Not Led to New Restrictions," Migration Information Source, 30 April 2025 [text]

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