Outputs (3)

The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement (2024)
Journal Article
Hammoud-Gallego, O. (2024). The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement. World Development, 182, Article 106709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106709

Most countries across the globe introduce visa restrictions to regulate immigration, yet little is known about their effect on migrants’ decision to migrate and their well-being. I study the mass displacement of Venezuelan nationals, and through a di... Read More about The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement.

Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws (2022)
Journal Article
Hammoud-Gallego, O., & Freier, L. F. (2023). Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws. American Political Science Review, 117(2), 454-473. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000305542200082x

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 r... Read More about Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws.

A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020 (2021)
Journal Article
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

Recent scholarship has claimed that countries across Latin America have been adopting an increasingly liberal and more advanced legal framework for the protection of refugees. Yet little systematic cross-country evidence beyond case studies exists to... Read More about A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020.