Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

5 ways UNHCR is transforming its transport and infrastructure services for a more sustainable future (UNHCR Blog, June 2026) [text]

When risk is local, but decisions are not: bridging the gap in risk-sharing practice (ODI HPN, June 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles: 

The 5 Dos and Don'ts of Humanitarian Diplomacy (Norwegian Refugee Council, July 2026) [text]

2025 Report on flexible funding: Flexibility that drives resilience (IOM, July 2026) [access]

- Follow link to companion information page on flexible funding; access to the report is provided towards the bottom.

Delivering an ecosystem approach to humanitarian action: proposals from the Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action (ODI, June 2026) [text]

"The health outcomes of shelter and settlements interventions in humanitarian crises: a systematic review," Conflict and Health, 20 June 2026 [open access]

Humanitarian Access and Protection Under Siege: A Focus on Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon (Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, June 2026) [text via UCL]

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2026 (ALNAP, June 2026) [access]

- Follow link for full report and summaries in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

The Impact of Funding Cuts on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Haiti and South Sudan, Working Paper, no. 53 (Researching Internal Displacement, June 2026) [text]

Oppression, liberation and humanitarianism in Palestine, Myanmar and Sudan (ODI, July 2026) [text]

Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Findings from Crisis-specific Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations Covering the Period 2015-2025 (OCHA, April 2026) [access]

- "The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven inter-agency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different contexts spanning 2015 – 2025: Mozambique Cyclone Idai (2019), Ethiopia drought (2015-2018), Yemen (2015-2021), Afghanistan (2021-2023), Northern Ethiopia conflict (2021-2023), Somalia drought (2022-2024), and Türkiye/Syria Earthquake (2023-2025). The document also presents a meta-analysis of issues that arise from reading across the evaluations and suggests recommendations that stem from the findings. The synthesis brief (English, Arabic, French, and Spanish versions), as well as the summary and full reports, are available." See also related ICVA Blog post.

Resource:

Solutions from the Start Toolkit: Guidance for Emergency Response (Norwegian Refugee Council) [access]

- "The toolkit is an approach for designing emergency response and preparedness that not only meets basic needs but also creates a pathway toward self-reliance and durable outcomes for displaced people, prioritising sustainable options wherever feasible, strengthening local capacities, and avoiding parallel service delivery systems."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (9 June 2026)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The case for prioritising national expertise in humanitarian work (HPN, March 2026) [text]

Cutting Aid Means Cutting Rights: Who Decides Which Rights Matter for Internally Displaced Persons? (RID Blog, April 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Haiti and South Sudan.

Internal Displacement in the Context of Hyper Prioritisation (RID Blog, March 2026) [text] 

International aid fell sharply in 2025, says OECD (OECD, April 2026) [text]

- See also related TNH article.

New initiative to strengthen global humanitarian surge capacity (NRC, April 2026) [text]

A Personal Reflection: National Ownership and Localisation in Displacement Contexts – Are We Ready? (RID Blog, April 2026) [text]

Some Questions for Congress About Trump’s Request for Funding for the Board of Peace (Just Security, April 2026) [text]

USAID Spending at the Country and Sector Level: What Happened in Fiscal Year 2025? (CGD Blog, April 2026) [text]

- See also related posts on who is getting new US foreign assistance contracts and Trump’s proposed FY27 foreign assistance budget.

The Washington Post’s Optimistic Read on Aid Cuts Doesn’t Hold Up (CGD Blog, April 2026) [text]

With over 1,000 aid workers killed in 3 years, often at the hands of Member States, UN Relief Chief demands accountability (OCHA, April 2026) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (26 March 2026)

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Migration across the Americas I: Governance of Borders, Mobilities and People, Los Angeles, 16 April 2026 [info]

- Co-sponsored by the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).

Short pieces:

ACNUR y el Gobierno de Japón apoyan el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de asilo en Belice mediante la innovación y la protección (ACNUR, March 2026) [text]

Applying Modern Monetary Theory to the Housing Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia (Refugee Research Online, March 2026) [text]

New immigration and asylum measures from Bill C-12 (the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act) have become law (Govt. of Canada, March 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: A regional snapshot (IOM, March 2026) [access]

Displacement, Gendered Harm, and the Normalization of Crisis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Mercy Corps, March 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Response to Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Honduras: Factsheet (UNHCR, March 2026) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

US Immigration Policies and Migration in Transit Countries (Baker Institute, March 2026) [text]

The U.S.-Ecuador Asylum Cooperative Agreement: Why It Fails the Law and Endangers Asylum Seekers - Factsheet (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, March 2026) [text]

Venezuelans in the Americas face uncertainty in light of political changes at home and in exile (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2026) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Journal articles:

"Intergenerational trauma in forcibly-displaced populations in Latin America: a scoping review," BMC Public Health, 10 March 2026 [open access]

"Trauma and economic displacement: psychological consequences and interventions among Venezuelan refugees in the Americas," Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15 Feb. 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

"Situación de las personas deportadas, expulsadas o trasladadas en el contexto de la movilidad humana," IACHR's 195th Period of Sessions, Guatemala City, 11 March 2026 [access]

- See also related joint NGO statement.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (11 March 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]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (3 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Protecting Children on the Move in South Africa: Legal Frameworks, Lived Realities, and Systemic Challenges (On the Move Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Child alert: Haiti’s children confront a polycrisis (UNICEF, Oct. 2025) [access]

Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2024, Conflict Trends, no. 1 (Nov. 2025) [text]

Children on the Move in North Africa and Along Key Routes: Trends, Vulnerabilities and Experiences of Migrant Children (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Family Reunification for Beneficiaries of International and Subsidiary Protection, Fact Sheet, no. 40 (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Family reunification of third-country nationals: State of play of law and practice (European Migration Network, Oct. 2025) [text]

- See also related EMN Inform.

"I Don't Have Family, I'm Not Breathing and I'm Not Alive": The impact of refugee family reunion on the mental health of refugees (Helen Bamber Foundation, Oct. 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

'I Returned to Life': Why refugee family reunion must be protected (British Red Cross, Oct. 2025) [access]

The Theory of Change: Prevent and Respond to Child Marriage in Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Settings (Plan International & Save the Children, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (7 Oct. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"Belize signs ‘safe third country’ agreement as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown," PBS Newshour, 21 Oct. 2025 [text]

Displacement in Haiti Reaches Record High as 1.4 Million People Flee Violence (IOM, Oct. 2025) [text]

*Five Lessons for the World Bank to Strengthen Migration Response in the Americas (Refugees International, Oct. 2025) [text]

Joint statement: Bill C-12’s introduction solves none of Bill C-2’s problems (Amnesty International, Oct. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Tapachula: Once a transit hub, now a dead-end border town (MSF, Oct. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Mexico.

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

Reports:

Canadian public opinion about immigration and refugees (Environics Institute & Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Oct. 2025) [access]

Internal Displacement in Ecuador: Establishing a Baseline on the Impact of Violence and Internal Displacement in Ecuador (2022–2024) - Executive Summary (Defensoría del Pueblo de Ecuador & UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Migración extracontinental en tránsito por las Américas: caracterización, necesidades y retos (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Amazon, humanitarian crisis and logistics: the military intervention of Venezuelan migration in Brazil as a war of conquest," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 33 (2025) [open access]

"Beyond Cooperation: The Role of Origin Countries in Deportation Efforts, Evidence from Mexico (1942 to 1964)," Migration Politics, Accepted Submission, 14 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Characterization of international migration movements toward Chile: A scoping review of scientific articles and official reports," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 12 (2025) [open access]

"Proving Fear: the corporeal witness and its role in asylum seeking," Journal of Somaesthetics, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on "Central American asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border."

"Refuse to Let Die: Humanitarian Pastoral Powers and Biopolitical Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (13 Oct. 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.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (24 Sept. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Ante una crisis de desplazamiento sin precedentes, los países de las Américas continúan ofreciendo ejemplos de solidaridad e integración (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

"Canadian bill seeks to deny hearings to some asylum-seekers," Reuters, 4 June 2025 [text]

- See also related commentary from The Guardian and The Conversation.

"The challenges facing 'invisible' reverse flow migrants in Panama," The New Humanitarian, 19 June 2025 [text]

Haiti Sees Record Displacement as 1.3 Million Flee Violence (IOM, June 2025) [text]

- See also related HRW news release.

More restrictive immigration policies underline the rule of law in the Dominican Republic (Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion, July 2025) [text]

On World Refugee Day, States throughout the Americas must uphold the right to seek asylum (Amnesty International, June 2025) [text]

"US signs agreements with Guatemala and Honduras to take asylum-seekers, Noem says," AP News, 26 June 2025 [text]

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

Journal articles:

"The Banality of Crimmigration: Can Immigration Law Recover Itself?," Laws, vol. 14, no. 3 (May 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"The border is always changing: a mixed-methods study of resilience among migrant serving organisations in the USA and Mexico," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 9, no. 5 (2025) [open access]

"Canada's Long-Standing Openness to Immigration Comes Under Pressure," Migration Information Source, 24 June 2025 [text]

"Cartagena+40: A Missed Opportunity for Regional Cooperation on Dangerous Journeys," Forced Migration Review, no. 75 (May 2025) [open access]

"Institutional Asymmetries in Border Crisis Response: State Constraints and Non-State Adaptability in the 2023 Peru-Chile Migration Emergency," Frontiers in Political Science, 3 June 2025 [open access]

"Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:39 (June 2025) [open access]

"Wall of visas: how race impacts the externalization of (forced) migration control in south-south migration corridors," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (24 May 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"Argentina orders immigration crackdown with decree to 'make Argentina great again'," NPR, 15 May 2025 [text]

Bolsonaro’s paradox: a far-right leader’s pro-immigration strategy? (Migration Mobilities Bristol Blog, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Brazil.

Governing through expulsion: rise in U.S. deportations quiets the Darién Gap, shifting burdens south (Bliss Blog, May 2025) [text]

IACHR urges States to guarantee the rights of returned, deported, or expelled people (OAS, May 2025) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

Migration: A worldwide crisis of solidarity (Doctors without Borders, May 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Facing New Migration Realities: U.S.-Mexico Relations and Shared Interests (Migration Policy Institute, May 2025) [text]

Haiti: Conflict escalation and increasing internal displacement (ACAPS, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Limited Aid and Impossible Choices for People Seeking Refuge: The Human Impact of Trump Administration Policies in Costa Rica (Refugees International & Women’s Refugee Commission, May 2025) [text]

- See also related statement.

"The Strategy is to Break Us": The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Costa Rica (Human Rights Watch, May 2025) [access]

- A Spanish version is also available.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Feeding migrants to cultivate a moral self: an analysis of food relief in U.S. and Mexican migration control," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 May 2025 [open access]

"Irregularized Transits to the South: A Social Force in the Cross-Border Spatial Dispute in South America," Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Early View, 12 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans.

"The Theoretical and Practical Potential of Acompañamiento for Research with People Marginalized through Immigration Controls," Chapter in Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”: The Making of Crises and Their Effects (Univ. of Ottawa Press, May 2025) [open access]

- "Drawing on illustrative examples from the work of two members of an interdisciplinary research team working with Indigenous migrant communities in Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States, this chapter explores the concept of acompañamiento and considers its theoretical and practical relevance in shaping modes of enquiry and action."

"The Venezuelan 'Migratory Crisis' in the Ecuadorian Context: Problematizing Immigrants as Victims and Threats," Chapter in Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”: The Making of Crises and Their Effects (Univ. of Ottawa Press, May 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier, 14 May 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Americas) (23 May 2025)

- Regional Focus: Americas (14 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Webinar: Legal Tools for a Changing Climate [info]

- Will be held on different dates based on region; includes "a live walkthrough of the Climate Mobility Case Database [see below] and Toolkit."

Short pieces:

Disasters Displaced a Record 46 Million People Last Year (Scientific American, May 2025) [text]

Understanding climate migration through a racial justice lens: Haiti as a quintessential example (Open Global Rights, May 2025) [text]

Reports: 

At the mercy of the climate: the impact of climate change on IDPs in Yemen (Holm Akhdar Environmental Consultancy, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Climate refugees: Addressing climate-induced massive migration before it happens (Greek Council for Refugees & World Wide Fund For Nature, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Europe.

Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Disaster Risks (IOM, 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Jordan.

The Impacts of USAID Cuts: Less Climate Resilience, More Forced Displacement (Refugees International, April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Displacement Can Permanently Hamper Children’s Education and Imperil Future Prospects," Migration Information Source, 7 May 2025 [text]

"From drought to displacement: Assessing the impacts of climate change on conflict and forced migration in West Africa's Sahel Region," Journal of Climate Change and Health, vol. 23 (May-June 2025) [open access]

"Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the Horn of Africa.

"In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes," American Political Science Review, vol. 118, no. 4 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Life in Transition: A Study of Climate Migrants' Adaptation and Perceptions in Urban Slums and Rural Villages in Bangladesh," Comparative Sociology, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 2025) [ResearchGate]

"Migrants’ perspectives on environmental change and translocal practices in Morocco, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

Resource:

Climate Mobility Case Database (Global Strategic Litigation Council, Earth Refuge, Raoul Wallenberg Institute & Zolberg Institute for Migration & Mobility) [access]

- A "free-to-access global database collating
and summarising judicial decisions concerning all forms of internal and cross border
climate-related (im)mobility." Officially launched during this event.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (23 April 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Fieldwork Notes: Research with Migrant and Refugee Leaders - Takeaways from the Fieldwork in Chile and Colombia (LERRN, April 2025) [text]

The Forgotten Side of Deportation: The Cost of Ignoring Returnees’ Reintegration Challenges (MPI, April 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

"Haiti and its Refugees: A Matter of International Security?," Pardee Atlas Journal of Global Affairs, 13 April 2025 [text]

The relevance of pro bono advocacy in protection of the rights of migrants and refugees in Brazil (IBA, April 2025) [text]

What early data reveals about “reverse migration” (Niskanen Center, April 2025) [text]

*Years of progress in protection and integration of displaced people in Colombia at risk, UNHCR warns (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

Colombia: Anticipated implications of US stop-work orders and subsequent cuts (ACAPS, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Colombia: Canasta Básica de Gastos Mínimos (Humanitaria) para población migrante proveniente de Venezuela con vocación de permanencia (REACH, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Complex Intergovernmental Problem: Why Asylum Seekers Challenge Canada’s Immigration System," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Advance Articles, 12 April 2025 [open access]

"La Guyane française, nouvelle terre d’accueil ? Les effets d’un droit d’asile singulier sur la reconfiguration des routes de l’exil," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 41, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"International Migrant Returnees as Strategists: Mexican Parents Moving with Their Children from the United States to Mexico," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 41, no. 1 (Winter 2025) [ResearchGate]

"Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened": The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama (Human Rights Watch, April 2025) [access]

- Also available in Spanish.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (14 April 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Talk: Mapping Scenarios: Responding to the Current Migration Patterns in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, Baltimore, MD, 8 April 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Brazil Advances in Building a National Policy for Refugees and Migrants (Refugees International, Feb. 2025) [text]

Costa Rica: Allow Deported Migrants to Seek Asylum (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [text]

"Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border," Latin America Brief, 14 March 2025 [text]

"They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama," AP News, 12 March 2025 [text]

"The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations," AP News, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

Violence Triggers Record Displacements in Port-au-Prince: Over 60,000 People in a Month (IOM, March 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Análisis de los indicadores de gobernanza de la migración a nivel regional (IOM, 2025) [text]

Análisis regional de necesidades de ayuda legal: Colombia, México, Perú, Venezuela, Guatemala y Honduras, Nov. 2023-Oct. 2024 (Danish Refugee Council, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Haiti: Haitians deported to Haiti — Profiles, migration experience and intentions of Haitians deported in 2024 (IOM, March 2025) [text]

- Also available in French.

Internal Displacement Caused by Violence Perpetrated by Organised Criminal Gangs and Networks: Drivers and Dynamics (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Second contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia en ocho años de posacuerdo (2016-2024), CODHES Informa, no. 118 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Feb. 2025) [text via Refworld]

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Costa Rica: Logros del ACNUR en 2024 (UNHCR, 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Immigrants’ Barriers to Accessing Social Policy in Argentina and Chile," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Latin American Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 2 (March 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses." The original CFP provides additional information.

"A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [free full-text]

"'Operation Welcome': Humanitarian Pathway and Admission Applied to the Reception of Venezuelan Migrants in Brazil," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (24 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (24 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

More on the dismantling of USAID & fallout from the US aid freeze:

News & commentary

• How the gutting of USAID is reverberating around the world: Worry, despair, praise (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Which Countries are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; and What Other Providers Can Do (CGD Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO," BBC News, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Thoughts on aid dependency amid the Trump chaos," The New Humanitarian, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
• The US administration assault on DEIA is an assault on the humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality (HPN, 12 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Supporting Freedom and a Foreign Aid Freeze are Incompatible — But Perhaps the Point? A Case Study (Just Security Blog, 13 Feb. 2025) [text]
• A judge orders a temporary thaw to Trump's foreign aid freeze. What will that mean? (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 14 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis," The New Humanitarian, 17 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Myanmar in 'polycrisis' as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "IRC cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze," The New Humanitarian, 19 Feb. 2025 [text]
• Which Agreements Are Being Terminated by USAID? (CGD Blog, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Why the crisis in global aid is bigger than Trump (ODI Insights, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Humanitarian Reset: Message from Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher to the humanitarian community (OCHA, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• The impact of the USAid funding freeze: what we know so far (Bond, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Philanthropists urged to ‘step up’ as emergency funds launch to plug USAID freeze (Alliance Blog, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Trump administration is flouting an order to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid, judge says," AP News, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• What’s next for USAID? (The Interpreter Blog, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "Who’s erasing DEI from their websites?," The New Humanitarian, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia," The Guardian, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "In potential showdown, aid groups demand court find USAID, State officials in contempt," NPR, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job," AP News, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• US aid freeze: A catastrophe looming for the Horn of Africa (ECPR, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "U.S. exempts security funds from aid freeze — but little for humanitarian programs," Reuters, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• ‘We’re Just Keeping Everybody Alive’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze (Refugees International, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?," New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 [text]

Other resources

• Haiti: Anticipated implications of US funding freeze (ACAPS, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• The Impacts of the US Funding Suspension: ICVA Survey Findings (ICVA, 18 Feb. 2025) [text] (see also related Reuters article)
• If not (US) aid, then what?, 19 Feb. 2025 [access]
• US Funding Suspension Resource Page (ICVA, regularly updated) [access]
• What Americans think about foreign assistance: Findings from a new public opinion survey, 18 Feb. 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Round-up: More on USAID Shutdown & Consequences of Aid Freeze (incl. on the US) (11 Feb. 2025) 

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (30 Jan. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"Aid in the crosshairs: Why access is growing harder in Haiti," The New Humanitarian, 28 Jan. 2025 [text]

*"Así quiere apoyar América Latina a los deportados por Trump," DW, 29 Jan. 2025 [text]

How the Trump administration may impact mixed migration in the Americas (Mixed Migration Centre, Jan. 2025) [text]

It’s time for Canada to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement: The United States is not a "safe country" for refugee claimants (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Jan. 2025) [text]

"Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there," CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025 [text]

Trump’s Pause of U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America: An “America Last” Policy (WOLA, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related IOM statement.

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

Reports:

"Ahora no tenemos nada": Estudio sobre vivienda, tierra y propiedad de comunidades indígenas desplazadas en Guatemala (Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Chile’s Immigration Challenges Heat Up Ahead of 2025 Elections (US Institute of Peace, Jan. 2025) [text]

Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leadership, and Development in Origin Countries, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11049 (World Bank, Jan. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Venezuela.

Transiting the Americas: Dangerous Journeys to Uncertain Destinations (Georgetown Univ., Jan. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (16 Jan. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Chile: Amendments Enacted to Procedure for Determining Refugee Status (Global Legal Monitor, Nov. 2024) [text]

Colombia: 1.5 million displaced post peace agreement (NRC, Nov. 2024) [text]

*High Commissioner's speech at the MIRPS VII Annual Meeting (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

- See also related press release.

Migration experts scrutinize Justin Trudeau’s explanation for immigration cuts (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

*"New survey finds Canadians are feeling anxious about immigration," CBC, 18 Nov. 2024 [text]

OIM y ACNUR elogian la labor de Costa Rica en impulsar respuestas regionales de protección e integración para las personas migrantes y refugiadas (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Over 20,000 Flee as Rising Gang Violence Spurs Mass Displacement in Haiti (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Why the ‘language of loopholes’ should be avoided if Trump cracks down on the Canada-U.S. border (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

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

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Accommodating Vulnerable Claimants in the Refugee Hearing: The Canadian Example," Chapter in Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies (Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Fear of Crime and Anti-Refugee Sentiments: Evidence from Canada," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean," Injury Prevention, Online First, 23 Oct. 2024 [free full-text]

Multimedia:

Migration Through the Darien Gap: 'It’s not a passage; it’s a jungle', 18 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2024)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (14 Nov. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Advancing legal rights in the context of climate and disaster displacement (Free Movement Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Forced Human Mobility Due to Environmental Factors in Peru: Legislative Advances and Implementation Challenges (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Blending Tradition and Modernity for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Epicenter of Crisis: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia (Airbel Impact Lab & International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2024) [access]

- The report is available in numerous languages.

Desplazamiento forzado causado por factores climáticos, ambientales y conexos en Colombia, CODHES Informa, no. 116 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

It’s Time for Solutions! Addressing Displacement and Other Human Mobility Challenges in the Context of Climate Change Loss and Damage (Loss and Damage Collaboration & Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2024) [text]

Localizing Climate Adaptation Planning in Kenya’s Refugee-Hosting Counties (Refugees International, Nov. 2024) [text]

Loss and Damage governance must account for displacement (IDMC, Oct. 2024) [text]

Nexo entre cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y desplazamiento forzado (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Also available in English.

No Escape: On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for press release, report and data visualization.

Réintégration verte des migrants déportés: comment la transition vers l’agroécologie peut apporter des solutions durables en Haïti? (IOM, June 2024) [text]

*Who Are Climate Migrants? A Global Analysis of the Profiles of Communities Affected by Weather-related Internal Displacements (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees," PS: Political Science & Politics, FirstView, 8 Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 27 Oct. 2024 [open access]

*REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

- Scroll down to view special dossier no. 2 focuses on "Movilidad Humana y Crisis Climática." Includes a mix of articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

"Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States," PNAS, vol. 121, no. 46 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Charting a Smart Agenda for Managing Climate Migration, 31 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (14 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Fact sheet: Fourth Ministerial Meeting on the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (White House, Sept. 2024) [text]

Haiti: A multi-dimensional crisis leading to continued displacement (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [access]

- See also related press release.

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

Reports:

Guía para el registro de personas en situación de desplazamiento forzado interno en México (UNHCR & Govt. of Mexico, Sept. 2024) [text]

Haiti: Increased internal displacement heightens food and health needs in the Grand Sud region (ACAPS, Oct. 2024) [text]

Localization in UNHCR Americas (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- A Spanish version is also available.

Movilidad humana, transferencias monetarias y localización: Estudios de caso en Perú y Ecuador (CALP Network & REACH Initiative, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Necesidades y Satisfacción con la Justicia en Honduras: Brechas de acceso a la justicia para personas desplazadas internamente (Instituto de la Haya para la Innovación del Derecho, Sept. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Unprotected: unveiling gaps in the protection of Venezuelan refugees in Aruba (Amnesty International, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related news story.

Journal articles:

"Invisible Gates Made Visible in Trinidad and Tobago: Projected and Sanctified Violence by the Liberal State upon Illegal Immigrants and Refugees," LIAS Working Paper Series, vol. 11, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"The power of bureaucracies: Shaping migration policy paradigms in Colombia and Ecuador," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Global Migration and "The Route" to the US (Wilson Center NOW, Oct. 2024) [access]

Tackling the Root Causes: Food Insecurity and Forced Migration in Latin America, 9 Oct. 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (24 Sept. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Funding Opportunity for a Technical Secretariat to Support the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection [info]

- Proposal application submission deadline is 5 August 2024.

Short pieces:

"‘Entire social fabric’ unravelling in Haiti as displacement continues," UN News, 20 July 2024 [text]

IOM Launches a Data Portal for the Americas to Boost the Implementation of Los Angeles Declaration (IOM, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"No good options for Venezuelans as Maduro declared victor," The New Humanitarian, 29 July 2024 [text]

Panama Plans to Deport Irregular Migrants with Financial Support from the US (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2024) [text]

Paramilitary Resurgence Drives Mass Displacement in Chiapas (NACLA, July 2024) [text]

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

Reports:

Migration Does Not Start at the US Border: A Regional Approach to Managing Migration and Keeping People Safe (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]

- "In 2024, most migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border have come from six Latin American countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Colombia."

Un mundo mejor para la población migrante en América Latina y el Caribe (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo & UNDP, April 2024) [text via Refworld]

Recommendations on the inclusion of civil society in the implementation of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (June 2024) [text via WRC]

La reintegracion de personas retornadas a Venezuela: Tipos, vulnerabilidades y líneas de acción 

para la promoción de activos humanos (OVM, UNHCR, & UCAB, July 2024) [text]

Risks and protection through the most dangerous zones along transit migration routes in Central America and Mexico (IOM, 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Beyond the narrative: Colombia and the Venezuelan migrants," Global Policy, vol. 15, no. S3 (June 2024) [free full-text]

"The Burden and Risk Factors Associated with Infectious Diseases among Refugees in a Camp for Migrants in Porto Alegre: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Annals of Global Health, vol. 90, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Fronteras y migraciones dentro de ámbitos metropolitanos: Reflexiones a partir del caso de Colonia Juárez en Ciudad de México," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

"Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y caravanas: el fortalecimiento de la agencia migrante," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Mexico.

"The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement," World Development, vol. 182 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (16 July 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

ACNUR celebra nueva decisión de Uruguay que lo posiciona como país modelo en la protección de personas refugiadas (ACNUR, May 2024) [text]

"As Darién migration goes global, language becomes a major challenge," The New Humanitarian, 3 June 2024 [text]

Colombia: Changing conflict dynamics still disproportionately affect most vulnerable (IDMC, May 2024) [text]

"Honduras," Entry in The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises in 2023 (NRC, June 2024) [text]

- Note: Honduras is the only non-African country included.

*"In Pursuit of the Possible: Addressing population flows in the Americas," Remarks by Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Georgetown University, Washington, DC (June 2024) [text]

The silent struggle of internal displacement (Americas Migration Brief, May 2024) [text]

- Provides an analysis of data relating to IDPs in the Americas from IDMC's 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement.

Translating Principles into Action: Countries Set New Agenda on the Los Angeles Declaration’s Second Anniversary (MPI Commentary, May 2024) [text]

- Also in Spanish.

Young Hondurans’ desire to migrate is influenced by factors beyond poverty and violence (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Impact in Colombia during 2023 (Humanitarian NGO Forum - Colombia, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Mexico at a Crossroads Once More: Emigration Levels Off as Transit Migration and Immigration Rise," Migration Information Source, 23 May 2024 [text]

"Migration Crisis in the Andes: A Case Study of Localization and Acompañamiento from Medellin, Colombia," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 29 Feb. 2024 [open access]

*Mind the Darién Gap, Migration Bottleneck of the Americas (CSIS, May 2024) [text]

Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Haiti (Global Protection Cluster, May 2024) [access]

- Available in English and French.

Violence, desperation and abandonment on the migration route: The medical-humanitarian impact of an unprecedented crisis in Mexico and Central America (Médecins Sans Frontières, May 2024) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (13 May 2024)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (13 May 2024)

News: UNHCR Guidance on Haitians

Yesterday, UNHCR issued new guidance on "International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing Haiti" that reviews current country conditions and assesses international protection needs. The press release notes the following:

"In its new guidance, UNHCR considers that, in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention, Haitians who should be deemed eligible for refugee protection may include political activists, journalists, judges, lawyers and others fighting corruption and crime, among other risk profiles.

   Furthermore, Haitians may also be eligible for refugee protection under the 1984 Cartagena Declaration’s regional refugee definition. Under this definition applied by many countries in the region, refugee protection should be extended to individuals affected by circumstances that seriously disturb public order in the country and by generalized violence in areas impacted by gang activities.

   Countries may also consider granting complementary or temporary protection for people from Haiti, as well as other legal stay arrangements, such as family reunification, humanitarian visas, and access to documentation. Several countries in the Americas are already offering these alternatives to displaced Haitians, enhancing their protection and allowing them to integrate into the communities that welcome them."

The guidance concludes with a "call on States not to forcibly return anyone to Haiti, including those who have had their asylum claims rejected or who have otherwise been found not to be in need of international protection."