10.7910/DVN/IPVZFQLechartre, JosephineJosephineLechartreCenter for Interamerican Policy and Research, Tulane UniversityHarvard Dataverse2026Social Sciencesrefugeesmigrationconflictpolitical behaviorLechartre, JosephineJosephineLechartreCenter for Interamerican Policy and Research, Tulane UniversityLechartre, JosephineJosephineLechartre2026-04-042026-04-072151111655833113191336607264212079528622802484258816type/x-r-syntaxapplication/pdfapplication/pdftext/comma-separated-valuestype/x-r-syntaxtext/tab-separated-valuestext/rtftext/x-r-notebooktext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/vnd.ms-excel1.0CC0 1.0How do refugee experiences in receiving countries shape their political behavior after return? I argue that inclusive hosting in exile has the potential to increase refugee engagement in protest upon return home. I confirm this expectation through an original survey of Guatemalan refugees that were exogenously assigned to settlements with inclusive and non-inclusive policies in Mexico in the 1980s. The dataset reports results from an original household survey of 423 former Guatemalan refugees. I find that inclusive hosting increased refugee post-return participation in nonviolent protest by 25 percentage points compared to refugees who did not experience inclusive hosting in exile.