OBMICA Bulletin December 2020

We begin a new year by making available the latest edition of the OBMICA Bulletin, which reviews key developments for understanding migration in the region during 2020. As usual, the publication is available online and as a PDF download.

On the cover: Brazil is the epicenter of COVID-19 in South America. The projection on the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro powerfully conveys the message that masks save lives. Photo credit: AP Leo Correa.

Below we present a summary of the content for December 2020. To continue reading online, please click read more.

Editorial: COVID-19 and migration

According to the United Nations, there are reports of discrimination and xenophobia against people of Asian descent, refugees, and other groups wrongly perceived as more contagious. Read more...

Taking stock: migrant regularization in the Dominican Republic

At the end of 2020, OBMICA conducted a study highlighting the challenges that persist for the regularization of migrants with irregular status, taking stock of the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners in the Dominican Republic. Read more...

Five issues to retain from 2020

COVID-19 looms over the main migration issues of 2020: border closures, an increase in remittances after bleak predictions, and the coming vaccination process, along with the active hurricane season and the dangerous sea journeys of Venezuelan migrants en route to Trinidad and Tobago. Read more...

Launch of the OBMICA 2019 yearbook

Each year since 2011, OBMICA staff and its associate researchers have monitored migration dynamics in the insular Caribbean and at the binational scale between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This effort culminates in the production of the State of Migration affecting the Dominican Republic. Read more...

New resources available: Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces

This book addresses borders, limits, and migration from both intra-Caribbean and external perspectives, offering interdisciplinary views across the humanities and social sciences. Read more...

Dialogue sponsored by MEPyD, December 2020

The National Center for the Promotion of Nonprofit Associations of the Ministry of Economy invited OBMICA to participate in one of its spaces for permanent dialogue with civil society. Read more...

Meet Colette Lespinasse

She served for many years as director of the Support Group for Refugees and Repatriates (GARR) and currently works as an independent consultant. Read more...