International Refugee Burdens

Mathias Czaika

Chapter 3 in The Political Economy of Refugee Migration and Foreign Aid, 2009, pp 25-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Many developing, as well as developed, countries provide temporary asylum to a large population of refugees and most of these host countries claim to be overburdened. The effective burden a country has to shoulder is difficult to determine since the absolute number of refugees must be evaluated in the light of country-specific conditions in the host country. This chapter provides a methodology that makes refugee burdens more comparable on a cross-country basis. Taking into account different aspects of a host country’s capacity we provide a Refugee Burden Index that is based on proxy indicators representing the economic, socio-demographic and politico-institutional environment. This methodology is applied on a sample of 174 countries, revealing the extent of inequalities in the pattern of refugee burden-sharing, both globally and regionally.

Keywords: Host Country; Asylum Seeker; Host Society; Refugee Population; International Refugee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230274204_3

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