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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.
Haitians wait to be processed and receive medical attention at a tourist campground in Cuba in May 2022. A vessel carrying more than 800 Haitians trying to reach the United States wound up on the coast of central Cuba instead. (AP Photo Ramon Espinosa)

How Haitian migrants are treated shows the ties between racism and refugee policy

Luisa Farah Schwartzman, University of Toronto

The UN refugee convention’s first protected category is race. Yet the current refugee system does not protect Haitians from racism and its consequences.

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  1. Asylum seekers
  2. Colombia
  3. Haiti
  4. Haitian refugees
  5. Immigration
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  7. Migrants
  8. Nicaragua
  9. Refugees
  10. Xenophobia

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