17 November 2025

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

ACNUR y OFIS firman convenio para promover la inclusión de personas refugiadas en los sistemas de protección social del Perú (ACNUR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Canadian immigration policy has become a moving target (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Displaced Venezuelans experiences of navigating temporary protection in Latin America (Refugee Studies Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Este es el acuerdo con el que Ecuador recibirá desde EE.UU. migrantes que solicitan asilo," Bloomberg Línea, 14 Nov. 2025 [text]
- Note: The US-Ecuador Safe Third Country agreement was negotiated in July but was just posted in the Federal Register today.

From Recognition to Reality: Legal Rights and Practical Obstacles for Venezuelan Migrants in Peru (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

IACHR concerned about reforms in Argentina regarding human mobility and international protection (OAS, Oct. 2025) [text]
- Also available in Spanish.

Países de América Latina y el Caribe acuerdan nuevas acciones para proteger, regularizar e integrar personas refugiadas y migrantes (ACNUR, Nov. 2025) [text]

‘Volviendo a Casa’: Migrants Returning Home (Pulitzer Center, Oct.-Nov. 2025) [access]
- "This project documents the impact of U.S.-funded deportation flights to Tapachula and Panama’s closure of migrant reception camps, which were re-purposed as detention centers."

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

Reports: 

Data Against Fear: What the Numbers Say About Venezuelan Migrants and Crime in Ecuador (Center for Global Development, Oct. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

The days to come: Modeling refugee flows from Venezuela after U.S. intervention (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Getting it Right the First Time: Exploring the False Economy of Bill C-12's Refugee Process Shortcuts, Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (Refugee Law Lab & Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Oct. 2025) [text via SSRN]
- Focuses on Canada.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's 2024–25 Departmental Results Report (Govt. of Canada, Nov 2025) [text]

Retorno y reintegración en Honduras: informe de seguimiento (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

*"'Bad hombres' across the border? Experiences of discrimination and exclusion beyond ethno-racial bias among immigrants and return migrants in Mexico," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines for Refugees and Migrants in Ecuador," Frontiers in Public Health, 3 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Experiences of Flight and Persecution. Individuals with International Protection Needs Trapped in Tijuana," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]
- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

"Migration in a Context of Securitization: Analysis of the 2023 CNDH México Recommendations," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]
- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

"Nodes of (im)mobility in southern Mexico. Tapachula as the epitome of border externalization," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]
- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

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