What Is Owed to Refugees when Attributing Responsibilities to States in Institutionalized Responsibility Sharing Regimes?

Responsibility sharing has been at the core of the debates on asylum in the European Union given that the legal framework designed to perform this task, the so-called Dublin System, failed to provide justice among states in responsibility attribution by its very design. This paper addresses the ques...

Author: Dziedzic, Lukasz
Document types:Article
Media types:Text
Publication date:2019
Date of publication on miami:11.04.2019
Modification date:13.04.2021
Source:Proceedings of the 2018 ZiF Workshop "Studying Migration Policies at the Interface between Empirical Research and Normative Analysis", S. 79-94
Edition statement:[Electronic ed.]
Subjects:Asyl; Verantwortungsteilung; Gerechtigkeit asylum; responsibility sharing; justice
DDC Subject:172: Politische Ethik
325: Internationale Migration, Kolonisation
License:CC BY-SA 4.0
Language:English
Format:PDF document
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-95189437530
Other Identifiers:DOI: 10.17879/95189437167
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-95189437530
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Responsibility sharing has been at the core of the debates on asylum in the European Union given that the legal framework designed to perform this task, the so-called Dublin System, failed to provide justice among states in responsibility attribution by its very design. This paper addresses the question of justice in responsibility sharing among the Member States of the EU while also providing normative and empirical arguments for rethinking what is being owed to refugees qua refugees, as the envisioned beneficiaries of responsibility sharing regimes, when thinking about reforming the system of responsibility attribution in Europe.