13 October 2025

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"As Maduro cracks down, aid organisations find it harder to assist and fear worse is to come," The New Humanitarian, 9 Oct. 2025 [text]

"Canada turns back more asylum-seekers to US despite third-country deportation risk," Reuters, 18 Sept. 2025 [text]

"For those deterred by Trump, can the American dream become the Mexican dream?," The New Humanitarian, 25 Sept. 2025 [text]

Monitoreo de protección revela aumento en 2025 del porcentaje de personas que llega a México y declara haber salido de su país por violencia (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Ten years on, Venezuelans still face precarity in Colombia (openDemocracy, Oct. 2025) [text]

UNHCR welcomes Brazil’s new national policy on refugees, migrants and stateless (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Bridging the Gap: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Latin America’s Mixed-Migration Response (Refugees International, Oct. 2025) [text]

Desplazamiento interno en Ecuador: Estudio para el establecimiento de una línea de base sobre el impacto de la violencia y el desplazamiento interno en Ecuador entre 2022 y 2024 (Defensoría del Pueblo de Ecuador, July 2025) [text via UNHCR]

Human Mobility and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Story of Resilience (UNDP, Sept. 2025) [text]

Instituciones de gobernanza migratoria en America Latina y el Caribe (Inter-American Development Bank, Sept. 2025) [text]

Internally Displaced People: Voice, Rights, and Dignity (World Vision, Oct. 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Haiti. Follow link for press release and report. Also available in French.

It is time to join efforts (Internal Displacement Solution Fund, ) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Colombia.

A lifeline at risk: food assistance at a breaking point - Haiti country report (World Food Programme, (Sept. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

Movimientos migratorios sur-sur: Fronteras, trayectorias y desigualdades, no. 9 (Aug. 2025) [full-text]
- Thematic issue on "Políticas y gestión de las migraciones en tiempos."

"Founded with Immigration in Mind, Argentina Has Reconsidered Its Approach," Migration Information Source, 8 Oct. 2025 [text]

"Interconnected Experiences of Violence: Exploring the Nexus of Sexual Violence, Migration, and Asylum Plans for People on the Move (PoM) in Latin America," Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, vol. 6, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Protecting irregular migrants: Evidence from Colombia," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Venezuelans.

"Rising Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean Has Ushered in a Volatile New Era," Migration Information Source, 2 Oct. 2025 [text]
- Available in English and Spanish.

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