Symbolic refugee protection: why Latin America passed progressive refugee laws never meant to use
Hammoud Gallego, O. & Freier, L. F.
(6 October 2022)
Symbolic refugee protection: why Latin America passed progressive refugee laws never meant to use.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog.
From free legal assistance in Nicaragua to the recognition of the right to refuge for people fleeing environmental disasters in Ecuador, Latin American refugee laws are exceptional. Yet they often seem to represent more of a utopian manifesto than the basis for political action, as Omar Hammoud Gallego (LSE) and Luisa Feline Freier (Universidad del Pacífico, Peru) found.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2022 The Authors |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > School of Public Policy |
| Date Deposited | 09 Jan 2023 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/117326 |