.INSANE ASYLUM asserts in Western countries are surging. EU members are on track to obtain 1m requests this year, much more than at any time because the migrant crisis of 2015-16. Much more than 800,000 have actually been actually housed in United States before year, an annual dive of almost two-thirds. Politicians are struggling to display management to citizens. Some expect to sidestep the concern by sending out asylum-seekers to have their insurance claims processed abroad. Yet asylum-offshoring hardly prospers. What is it, and why is it therefore hard to pull off?