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

Authors

James C. Hathaway, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2019

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.

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Available on the publisher's website at https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2019-0006.

Recommended Citation

Hathaway, James C. "Assigning Protection: Can Refugee Rights and State Preferences be Reconciled?" J. Institutional & Theoretical Econ. 175, no. 1 (2019): 33-45.