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

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  • James C. Hathaway

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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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  • James C. Hathaway, 2019. "Assigning Protection: Can Refugee Rights and State Preferences be Reconciled?," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 175(1), pages 33-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:doi:10.1628/jite-2019-0006
    DOI: 10.1628/jite-2019-0006
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    Keywords

    refugees; asylum; burden sharing; preference matching; international administration;
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    JEL classification:

    • F00 - International Economics - - General - - - General
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F53 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
    • F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • K33 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - International Law
    • K37 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Immigration Law
    • K38 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Human Rights Law; Gender Law; Animal Rights Law

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