Massive migration flows around the globe nowadays represent one of the main issues of the entire international community, and regardless of the reasons behind them, many countries are faced with huge financial burdens as they host a great number of forced migrants. Against this background, the thesis addresses an oft-posed question as to whether host countries have a right under international law to obtain compensation from countries of origin for the costs relating to admission of people who were forced to flee from their country of origin. In order to claim compensation in such cases successfully, one first needs to establish that the flight of people to the host country was a result of the acts of the country of origin – a classic example of such acts are systematic violations of basic human rights. Then, one needs to present a valid ground for the claim for compensation. This is either a violation of the obligation not to cause large-scale flows of forced migrants, which is owed to the host country individually, or violations of human rights as erga omnes partes obligations, which are owed to a certain group of States, including the host country, which is specially affected by those violations. However, notwithstanding that both these grounds for compensation are theoretically sound, the problem of the lack of international judicial and State practice remains, which reduces the chances of the claim to be successful. Lastly, one needs to demonstrate the occurrence of actual damage, which in such cases takes the form of all the costs relating to admission of forced migrant that are of sufficient causal proximity to the wrongful acts of the country of origin. Moreover, the host country cannot avoid those costs since it shall not deny entry on its territory to forced migrants if this would expose them to situations which the obligation of non refoulement seeks to prevent. At the very end, it has to be stressed that in light of the notoriety of the circumstances surrounding a massive flow of forced migrants, the host country has to assert the claim for compensation promptly, otherwise it runs the risk of being inadmissible.
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