Publications

‘Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws’. (2023). American Political Science Review. 117(2), 454-473. With L.F. Freier
- Best Paper Award, APSA Migration and Citizenship Section (Honorable Mention) 2024.
‘The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement’. (2024). World Development, 182, 106709.
‘A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020’. (2022). International Migration Review, 56(1), pp. 63–96.
- Best Paper Award on Latin America from the European Consortium for Political Research 2019.
.The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers. (2025). Comparative Migration Studies 13, 13. With P.McGovern and E. Thielemann.

Women Politicians’ Networks Reduce the Gender Gap in Political Retention: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Elite Interviews. (2026) (accepted) at British Journal of Political Science. With K. Lawall, M. Pereira, D. Baron.
News Cycles and Satisfaction with Democracy: How the Pandemic Short-Circuited Media Polarisation. (2025). British Journal of Political Science; 55: e49. With R.S. Foa and X. Romero-Vidal.

Visa Walls but Porous Borders: Venezuelan Displacement, Policy-Induced Illegality and Migrant Integration in Peru. With L.F. Freier and M. Poertner.

Industrial Matching in Refugees’ Destination Choices. With. J. Morales-Arilla and R. Alleyne.
Not All Migrants: Geographic Origins and the Tren de Aragua’s Regional Spread. With J. Morales-Arilla, D. Martin, and A. Morales.
Homeowners in Office and Housing Policy. With K. Lawall and M. Pereira.
Sanctions, Secrecy, and Signals: What Nowcasting Reveals About Russia’s War Economy. With R.S. Foa, E. Nazrullaeva, I. Timson-Smidt, & C. Campana.
Displacement and Human Capital in Colombia. With A. Bandiera and A. Velázquez.
The Trade-Off Between Regular and Irregular Migration: How Re-ducing Labour Migration Opportunities Can Lead to an Increase in Irregular Migration. With M. Rosina.

Mind The (Representation) Gap: How London's councillors reflect the diversity of its population. (2024). Migrant Democracy Project & LSE: London, UK. With K. Lawall, I. McRae, and A. Bulat.
The Challenge of Being a Politician: How local councillors in London experience their role as elected officials. (2024). Migrant Democracy Project & LSE: London, UK. With K. Lawall, I. McRae, and A. Bulat.
Does your local council reflect the diversity of its population? A pilot diversity survey in the London Borough of Camden. (2023). Migrant Democracy Project: London, UK. With A. Bulat.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2022). Corruption in Ghana – People’s Experiences and Views. Vienna [Co-author]
London Voices: the journey to full participation. (2021). the3million (Young Europeans Network): London, UK. With K. Lawall, I. McRae, S. Wanga and A. Bulat.

Hammoud Gallego, O. (2022), Liliana Lyra, Jubilut, Marcia Vera, Espinoza, Gabriela, Mezzanotti. 2021. Latin America and Refugee Protection: Regimes, Logics and Challenges. Berghahn Books: New York. pp. 434. . Int Migr, 60: 234-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13036