Views on opening or closing the country to refugees Latin America 2021

According to a survey carried out in 2021, 18 percent of Brazilian respondents agreed that their country should be more open to accepting refugees than before the COVID-19 crisis. Around 55 percent of Colombian and Peruvian respondents stated their country should be less open than before the pandemic to accepting refugees. Overall, more than half of Argentinians agreed that refugees would successfully integrate into their new society.

Opinion on whether the country should be more or less open to accepting refugees in selected Latin American countries 2021

Characteristic	More open	Stay the same	Less open
Brazil	18%	36%	35%
Chile	16%	31%	46%
Mexico	15%	32%	47%
Argentina	14%	37%	41%
Colombia	11%	27%	55%
Peru	10%	30%	55%

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Release date

June 2021

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Region

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, LAC

Survey time period

May 21 to June 4, 2021

Number of respondents

500 per country

Age group

16 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Do you think that [COUNTRY] should be more open or less open to accepting refugees or do you think it should remain the same as it was before the coronavirus/COVID 19 outbreak?"
Missing percentage points to 100 percent are probably due to rounding.

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