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Security personnel approach a plane carrying migrants from Central Asia and India, deported from the United States, at Juan Santamaría International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, in February 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)

‘The farther away, the better’ is the problematic logic behind U.S. third‑country deportations

Guillermo Candiz, Université de l'Ontario français and Tanya Basok, University of Windsor

The U.S. strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Global South countries is abhorrent. Migration scholars, human rights organizations and allies must co-ordinate, organize and actively resist.
Venezuelan migrants depart Jaque on Panama’s Pacific coast en route to Jurado, Colombia, as they return home after failing to enter the United States in September 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

American border crackdown forces Venezuelan migrants on a perilous journey back south

Guillermo Candiz, Université de l'Ontario français and Tanya Basok, University of Windsor

New research on Venezuelan migrants being forced back south from the U.S.-Mexico border raises key questions about safety and security for these migrants.
A migrant looks out the window on a bus on her way north to Nicaragua and the Mexico-U.S. border, in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, in 2023. Grassroots organizations that help migrants in countries in Costa Rica have been significantly affected by American cuts to humanitarian aid in 2025. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)

How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South

Tanya Basok, University of Windsor; Guillermo Candiz, Université de l'Ontario français, and Suzan ILCAN, University of Waterloo

In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
Migrants heading north arrive in Panama on Oct. 6, 2023, after walking across the 100-kilometre stretch of treacherous jungle shared by Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Darien Gap: As migrants take deadly risks for better lives, Canada and the U.S. must do much more

Tanya Basok, University of Windsor and Guillermo Candiz, Université de l'Ontario français

Migrants who cross the treacherous Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia often experience violence and abuse, extortion or detention by migration authorities.
Des migrants d'Amérique centrale demandeurs d'asile rentrent au Mexique par le pont international à la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique qui relie Ciudad Juarez et El Paso, le 21 mars 2020. La pandémie a offert une occasion en or à Donald Trump de resserrer encore davantage la mobilité des gens à la frontière. AP Photo/Christian Chavez

La pandémie restreint les droits des migrants et des demandeurs d’asile

Guillermo Candiz, Université de Montréal and Tanya Basok, University of Windsor

Les mesures qui empêchent les migrants de demander l’asile aux États-Unis ne sont pas seulement dues à la pandémie. Elles s’inscrivent dans un discours anti-migration qui prévaut depuis des décennies.

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