Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies (DWRAP)

This dataset codes all national laws pertinent to forcefully displaced populations in a total sample of 193 countries globally from 1951 (the year of the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees) to 2022. This de jure exercise covers five core dimensions:

1. Access: the ease of entrance and security of status
2. Services: Provision of public services and welfare
3. Livelihoods: The ability to work and own property
4. Movement: encampment policies, and
5. Participation: Citizenship and political rights.

This dataset combines two "child" datasets: 1) The original Developing World Dataset on Refugees and Asylum Policies that coded laws and policies from 92 African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian countries between 1951

and 2017 developed by Blair, Grossman and Weinstein, and 2) A complementary dataset developed by the original team at the invitation of the World Bank containing datasets on the remaining 101 countries in the world from 1951 to 2017, and all 193 countries from 2018-2022.