The current refugee crisis in Europe is not only a 'crisis of production' but also a 'crisis of response' in which failures of political response are (at least in part) failures to agree on, or commit to, criteria of fairness for the distribution of refugee protection. Stepping back from the immediate events, this paper considers the relationship between effective refugee protection and fair distribution of refugee protection through an analysis of the structure of the international refugee regime, both in terms of its normative commitments and the prudential incentives that it generates. (Credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
