The Global Compact on Refugees and the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Ripples of Responsibility-Sharing
Evan Easton-Calabria
Chapter 11 in ‘The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees’, edited by S Carrera and A Gedes. What does ‘fair and equitable responsibility- and burden-sharing’ look like today, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a global recession and an ongoing climate crisis? One could argue that it has not yet manifested as envisioned in the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) (UN, 2018) and is certainly not what the New Pact on Migration and Asylum appears to be.