When a Migrant Is Sent to a Third Country

Podcast: The Breakfast Podcast · Patricia López Muñoz

Opublikowano: 2026-08-28

Sending migrants to a third country—known as border outsourcing—has become one of the most debated proposals in current migration policy. ​What does it consist of? A country transfers asylum seekers or irregular migrants to a third state so that it processes their applications or hosts them temporarily or permanently, in exchange for financial compensation or bilateral agreements.