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Burden Sharing

  1. definition
  2. examples and/or illustrations
  3. other useful sources
  4. bibliography


Definition

Noun

  1. The question [of] how costs of common initiatives or the provision of public goods should be shared between states

    Thielemann, E. 2005. “Towards Refugee Burden-Sharing in the European Union State Interests and Policy Options”. Ninth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association

  2. The need for sharing responsibility for protection of refugees

    Boswell, Christina. 2003.  “Burden-sharing in the New Age of Immigration”.  Migration Information Source. http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=173 

 Synonyms: responsibility sharing, balance of efforts

 

Examples and/or Illustrations

Used in a sentence:

Burden-sharing proposals can include distributing refugees amongst states according to GDP, land mass, or population size.

“The concept of international solidarity and burden-sharing in relation to refugees, has been present since the inception of UNHCR. Its documented origins are found in Paragraph 4 of the Preamble of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, which expressly acknowledges that “the grant of asylum may place unduly heavy burdens on certain countries, and that a satisfactory solution of a problem of which the United Nations has recognized the international scope and nature cannot therefore be achieved without international cooperation.”

 

Other Useful Sources

Penz, Peter. 2004. “Ethical Reflections on the Institution of Asylum”. Refuge: 9 (3) 44-53

Schuck, Peter H. 1997. “Refugee Burden-Sharing: A Modest Proposal”. Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 1694.

 

Bibliography

Boswell, Christina. 2003.  “Burden-sharing in the New Age of Immigration”.  Migration Information Source. http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=173

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 2000. “Burden-Sharing – Discussion Paper “. UNHCR Fifth Annual Plenary Meeting Of The APC, Hong Kong, 13-14 November 2000. ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law. World Legal Information Institute.  http://www.worldlii.org/int/journals/ISILYBIHRL/2001/17.html  

Thielemann, E. 2005. “Towards Refugee Burden-Sharing in the European Union State Interests and Policy Options”. Ninth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association

 

Other related words (may be concepts):

  • durable solutions
  • international refugee protection regime
  • refugee Convention framework
  • responsibility arrangements