APLA: Asylum Policies in Latin America Database
Open dataset coding asylum legislation in 19 Latin American countries, 1990–2020, on 65 indicators. Created by Omar Hammoud-Gallego.
The APLA database codes asylum legislation in 19 Latin American countries from 1990 to 2020, using 65 indicators of policy outputs. It is introduced in Hammoud-Gallego (2022), International Migration Review and used in Hammoud-Gallego and Freier (2023), American Political Science Review.
Please cite: Hammoud-Gallego, O. (2022). A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020. International Migration Review, 56(1), 63–96. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211026202