29 July 2026

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Between Two Crises: Mobility, Belonging, and Survival among Lebanese Venezuelans (Borders and Limitations Blog, June 2026) [text]

"Venezuela in-depth: Attention fades even as earthquake needs spiral," The New Humanitarian, 28 July 2026 [text]

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

Reports:

Cuban migration dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (January - May 2026) (IOM, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Desplazamiento interno en Ecuador: Soledad en la respuesta institucional, RID Working Paper, no. 54 (Researching Internal Displacement, July 2026) [text]
- See also earlier related report published by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI).

[National Reports for Brazil, Chile and Ecuador] (ACCESS Project, June 2026) [access]
- Follow link for three reports that "provide information on the existent barriers, relevant caselaw on barriers to accessing asylum, and the socio-legal factors influencing adjudication."

Regularization and the Formation of Social Capital: Evidence from Forced Migrants in Colombia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11427 (World Bank, July 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Beyond Persecution: Rethinking the 1951 Refugee Convention in the Caribbean Context," UWI St. Augustine Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"The Fiction of Non-Entry in South American Airports: Evidence from Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador," Federalismi,it: Rivista di diritto pubblico italiano, comunitario e comparato, no. 11 (2026) [open access]
- See also related national reports above.

"Infrastructuring pathways: traversing the legal infrastructure of mobility in South America," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming, 2026) [open access]
- Fieldwork was conducted in Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

"Regional to national: pragmatic implementation of South American migration policies," Globalizations, Latest Articles, 7 July 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Brazil.

"The Trump Effect: US Immigration Policy and Transit Migrants in Central America," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 12 July 2026 [full-text]

Multimedia:

What do Venezuela’s Earthquakes Mean for its Refugee Crisis and for U.S. Immigration Policy?, Forced From Home, no. 7 (Refugees International, July 2026) [access]

Resource:

Procedural Barriers to Access Asylum and Judicial Outcomes in Chile (2013–2024) (ACCESS Project, July 2026) [access]
- "[A] repository of 584 judicial decisions that document the various administrative obstacles to formalizing asylum applications in Chile. The dataset includes 292 rulings from the Court of Appeals (first instance) and 292 corresponding decisions from the Supreme Court (second instance)."

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