The US welcomes refugees from Afghanistan but turns away Haitians. Why? Debating how best to share responsibilities for refugees, UCLA professor Tendayi Achiume argues that empires owe special duties to former colonies; Temple Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales explains the special rules following the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan; while Berkeley professor Seth Davis contrasts how different US states, notably Texas and California, respond.

We discussed Title 42 – a controversial public health tool used to close the Southern border, and discussed how climate change calls for a new response to mass migration, as a new White House report emphasizes. We also compared regional solutions, including solutions that can be fairly called responsibility sharing, and others that resemble responsibility dumping.

For more details, stay tuned for a special spring 2022 symposium issue of the California Law Review featuring many perspectives on refugee responsibility sharing.

Borderlines from Berkeley Law is a show about global problems in a world fragmented by national borders.

Our host is Katerina Linos, Tragen Professor of International Law and co-director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. In each episode of Borderlines, Professor Linos invites three experts to discuss cutting edge issues in international law.

For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law podcast hub.

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