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- Title
Paying Refugees to Leave.
- Authors
Gerver, Mollie
- Abstract
States are increasingly paying refugees to repatriate, hoping to decrease the number of refugees residing within their borders. Drawing on in-depth interviews from East Africa and data from Israeli Labour Statistics, I provide a description of such payment schemes and consider whether they are morally permissible. In doing so, I address two types of cases. In the first type of case, governments pay refugees to repatriate to high-risk countries, never coercing them into returning. I argue that such payments are permissible if refugees' choices are voluntary and if states allow refugees to return to the host country in the event of an emergency. I then describe cases where states detain refugees, and non-governmental organisations provide their own payments to refugees wishing to repatriate. In such cases, non-governmental organisations are only permitted to provide payments if the funds are sufficient to ensure post-return safety and if providing payments does not reinforce the government's detention policy.
- Subjects
REFUGEES; REPATRIATION; PAYMENT policy; EMIGRATION &; immigration; STATISTICS on the working class; STATES (Political subdivisions); DETENTION of persons -- Government policy; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; ETHICS; ECONOMICS; PUBLIC spending; TRAVEL; ECONOMIC history; FINANCE
- Publication
Political Studies, 2017, Vol 65, Issue 3, p631
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0032321716677607