Export the problem

This chapter discusses how cooperation with third countries can enable temporary or permanent resettlement. The stakes of dealing with particularly unwanted or unremovable migrants can be so high that a deal may be struck with a third country willing to take them in. In some cases, third countries accept undesirable but unremovable migrants out of solidarity or humanitarian concerns, without expecting anything in return. However, while a host country and a third country may come to an agreement that suits both parties, this doesn’t necessarily mean the individual concerned will be happy with the arrangement. The third country involved could be located anywhere in the world, and this might be a place to which undesirable but unremovable migrants have no ties whatsoever or that is culturally very distant to them.