Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws

What drove an entire region in the Global South to significantly expand refugee protection in the early twenty-first century? In this paper, we test and build on political refugee theory via a mixed-methods approach to explain the liberalization of refugee legislation across Latin America. First, we...

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Published in:The American political science review 2023-05, Vol.117 (2), p.454-473
Main Authors: HAMMOUD-GALLEGO, OMAR, FREIER, LUISA FELINE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Democratization
Developing countries
Diaspora
Discourses
Emigration
Executives
Human rights
Ideology
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration policy
Law
LDCs
Left wing politics
Legislation
Liberalization
Migrants
Migration
Panel data
Political asylum
Political ideologies
Political science
Politics
Protection
Public opinion
Refugees
Regions
Socioeconomic factors
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