Assigning Protection: Can Refugee Rights and State Preferences be Reconciled?

James C. Hathaway

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2019, vol. 175, issue 1, 33-45

Abstract: The theoretically global responsibility to protect refugees is today heavily skewed, with just ten countries - predominantly very poor - hosting more than half of the world's refugee population. Refugee protection has moreover become tantamount to warehousing for most refugees, with roughly half of the world's refugees stuck in "protracted refugee situations" for decades with their lives on hold. Both concerns - the unprincipled allocation of responsibility based on accidents of geography and the desperate need for greater attention to resettlement as a core protection response - cry out for a global, managed system to protect refugees.

Keywords: refugees; asylum; burden sharing; preference matching; international administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F00 F02 F53 F55 J60 K33 K37 K38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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