Articles Refugee Burden-Sharing: A Modest Proposal Peter H. Schuckt I. INTRODUCTION .................................................. 244 I. THE CURRENT REGIME FOR PROTECTING REFUGEES ........................... 250 M. THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION .................................. 254 IV. FOUR REMEDIAL STRATEGIES ........................................ 259 A. The Root Cause Strategy ....................................... 261 B. The Repatriation Strategy ....................................... 263 C. The Temporary Protection Strategy ................................. 264 D. Permanent Resettlement ........................................ 268 V. THE PROPOSAL: PROPORTIONAL BURDEN-SHARING ............................ 270 A. The Principle of Burden-Sharing .................................. 272 B. The Needs Assessment Process .................................... 277 C. The Criteria for Allocating the Protection Burden ....................... 279 D. A Market in Refugee Protection Quotas .............................. 282 E. An International Authority ...................................... 288 VI. A RESPONSE TO (ANTICIPATED) CRITICS .................................... 289 A. The Unworkability Objection ..................................... 289 B. The Quality-of-Protection Objection ................................ 294 C. The Commodification Objection ................................... 296 VII. CONCLUSION ................................................... 297 t Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale Law School; John Marshall Harlan Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, New York Law School (Spring 1997). The author received useful comments on an earlier version of this Article from faculty workshops at the Yale, McGeorge, New York, and Western New England law schools, and especially from Professors Lenni Benson, Joan Fitzpatrick, James Hathaway, Paul Kahn, Hiroshi Motomura, James Nafziger, W. Michael Reisman, Peter Spiro, and Myron Weiner. Wendy Weiser, Yale Law School class of 1996, provided excellent research assistance. 243
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