When Countries Expand Refugee Protection: Emigration, Democratization, and Policy Diffusion in Latin America, 1990- 2018

• In Event: JSS 8
  In JSS Session: Latin American and Caribbean Immigration Issues

Brief Overview

In this paper we develop a new methodology to measure policy outputs across countries in Latin America in the field of asylum over time. We provide evidence of liberalization and convergence over time and explain the rationale behind them.

Authors

• Omar Hammoud Gallego, The London School of Economics and Political Science

• Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)