20 February 2026

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Accompaniment in protracted urban displacement: learning from a community-based response to Venezuelan displacement in Peru (HPN, Jan. 2026) [text]

Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’: how local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

Development-Induced Displacement of Indigenous Communities in Ecuador (RID Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Displaced by Violence, Excluded from Healthcare: Compounding Injustices Facing Colombia’s IDPs (RID Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Tras Maduro, un enfoque mesurado de la migración venezolana es más esencial que nunca (MPI, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Also available in English.

Reports & journal articles:

Overlooking Lived Experiences: Access to Asylum & Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (Univ. of British Columbia, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rapport d’analyse: Cohabitation personnes déplacées internes – communautés hôtes, impacts socio-économiques, historique de déplacement et intentions de retour (IOM, Feb. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Reformando la frontera vertical? De las deportaciones a la contención al interior del territorio mexicano," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 17 (2026) [open access]

"Theorizing participation in the migrant caravans: Perspectives from migration and social movement studies," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

"The ‘vulnerability paradox’: how institutional legacies shaped Colombia's response to Venezuelan displacement," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

Multimedia:

Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants: Current Developments and Likely Futures, 17 Feb. 2026 [access]

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