Destination countries try to get transit countries in line with their migration policies. It doesn't always work.
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Antje Missbach is a senior research fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg. She is interested in transregional migration and refugee protection in Southeast Asia. She just published Indonesia: State and Society in Transition (2020), together with Jemma Purdey and Dave McRae, and edited a special section in Migration and Society with Melissa Phillips.