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Author Milazzo, Eleonora, author

Title Refugee Protection and Solidarity : the duties of EU member states / Eleonora Milazzo
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 204 pages)
Contents Cover -- titlepage -- copyright -- dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- A Problem Not of Space -- Solidarity between Commitment and Reality -- Overview of the Literature -- Justice among States: From the World to the EU -- Refugee Protection and Responsibility Sharing -- A Normative Theory of Responsibility Shirking -- Some Comments on the Methodological Approach -- Outline of the Book -- Part I. A Theory of Justice for Asylum Policies in the EU -- 2 Refugee Protection and Duties among States -- Introduction -- Some Definitions -- Collective Responsibility
From Collective Responsibility to Perfect Duties -- Interstate Duties for Refugee Protection -- Conclusion -- 3 From the World to the EU -- Introduction -- Reciprocity, the State, and the EU -- Applying Reciprocity-based Duties to Refugee Protection in the EU -- Three Objections -- Conclusion -- 4 Refugee Protection and Interstate Solidarity in the EU -- Introduction -- Solidarity as Co-responsibility -- An Institutional Approach -- The Meaning of Co-responsibility -- The Duty to Act in Solidarity -- Requirements of Solidarity -- Empirical Considerations
Assurance and the Puzzle of Non-compliance -- Conclusion -- Part II. When Solidarity Fails -- 5 Responsibility Shirking in the EU -- Introduction -- Defining Non-compliance -- The Failure to Fulfil an Imperfect Duty -- Responsibility Shirkers, Right-holders, and Beneficiaries -- Modes of Responsibility Shirking -- Attributional Responsibility Shirking -- Substantive Responsibility Shirking -- Procedural Responsibility Shirking -- Conclusion -- 6 Justified or Excused? -- Introduction -- How to Deal with Responsibility Shirking -- The Dance Club Example -- Justifications
1. We Are Acting on the Basis of the Duty of Non-refoulement -- 2. Granting Asylum in the EU Is Not the Answer -- 3. Acting Unilaterally Is Our Prerogative -- Excuses -- 4. Interstate Solidarity Puts National Solidarity at Risk -- 5. We Cannot Act in Solidarity Unless Others Do the Same -- Conclusion -- Part III. Taking Up the Slack -- 7 Doing More than One's Fair Share -- Introduction -- The Fairness v. Effectiveness Dilemma -- The Grounds of the Duty to Take Up the Slack -- Enforcing the Duty to Take Up the Slack -- Beyond a Compliance-based Approach
The Case of International Organizations -- How Should the Duty Be Enforced? -- A Coalition of Willing Slack Takers -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusions -- Answers and Implications -- A Multilayered Ethics of Asylum Governance -- In Search of a Democratic Compass -- Index
Summary Refugee Protection and Solidarity aims to define the duties that EU member states have towards each other in the field of refugee protection. It employs the analytical tools of normative political theory to bring moral clarity to a highly divisive debate on both principles and political feasibility
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2023)
Subject Refugees -- Protection -- European Union countries
Refugees -- Services for -- European Union countries
Refugees -- Protection
Refugees -- Services for
Society & culture: general.
Society.
European Union countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0192885723
9780191980800
0191980803
9780192885722