13 January 2026

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"5 migration trends in the Americas to watch in 2026," Americas Migration Brief, 18 Dec. 2025 [text]

Building Resilience Through Human Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Erosion of Asylum and Due Process in Ecuador’s 2025 LOMH Reforms (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

IACHR and CMW: States must eradicate xenophobia against migrants (OAS, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Psychological Cost of Being Forced to Leave Home (Psychology Today Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

UNHCR: ‘We hope Canada continues to be a champion for fast, fair, and efficient asylum’ (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related Guardian article.

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

New open access book:

Coping and Adaptation in Times of Exodus: Venezuelan Migration Decisions and Strategies (Routledge, Dec. 2025) [open access]
- This book "offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of the Venezuelan migration crisis - one of the most significant South-South population movements in recent decades. Drawing on the results of the MICLACAS research project, this book examines how Venezuelan migrants and their families navigate the challenges of displacement. Combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with migrants, their families, host communities, and experts, the volume examines the decision-making process behind migration and immobility, the strategies migrants employ to cope and adapt, and the outcomes of integration across diverse socio-political contexts." Focuses on Peru. See also earlier related journal article.

Reports & journal articles:

ACNUR en México, de la emergencia a la institucionalización (2010-2025) (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Beyond Mass Deportation," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 57, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]
- "Over four years, our interdisciplinary team interviewed more than 300 Mexican citizens who had been deported (or returned on their own), asking about their economic, social, and cultural reintegration and what advice they would offer to others returning to Mexico."

"La familiarización de las migraciones en los corredores migratorios de América Latina, una aproximación teórico-metodológica," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]
- Available in both Spanish and English.

"When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers: organized crime violence and risks for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border," Social Forces, Advance Articles, 4 Dec. 2025 [open access]

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