All across West Africa, migration policy-making has become a top priority. Not least related to the externalisation pressures of the European Union (EU) and its members’, regulating migration is a policy field that governments are pushed to pursue. But it also ties back to a culture of migration, long-standing mobility across the region, and displacement related to conflict and climate-related challenges. What about in Liberia, a country with its own complex history? In this piece, we show how m