This project aims to identify and understand the most recent transformations in the control of new migrations from West Africa, in a situation of vulnerability and immobility.
This project aims to identify and understand the most recent transformations in the control of new migrations from West Africa, in a situation of vulnerability and immobility. The project proposes to analyse the specific consequences of racism as an axis of articulation of contemporary violence - ordinary and political - in Tunisia, as well as to identify possible strategies and the demands of migrants in the face of such violence.
Objectives:
- Trace, identify and analyse the new and reactivated forms of violence exerted by migration control policies and practices as well as their effects on migrant populations of sub-Saharan origin (particularly from West Africa), currently in a situation of forced immobility and vulnerability.
- Define and analyse the specific impact of racism as a central axis underlying the migration control regime in Tunisia and show how it intersects with other forms of oppression based on gender, class and nationality (might also include other aspects).
- Carry out a socio-spatial analysis in three main migratory epicenters of the country (Grand-Tunis, Sfax and Medenine) to document the current humanitarian conditions of protection and vulnerability of sub-Saharan migrants in a situation of forced and unwanted immobility.
- Document and analyse the main organizational strategies, political subjectivities and claims of migrants in order to propose recommendations and solutions in terms of protection, rights and security to the Tunisian State, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations for the implementation of their migration projects.
- Contribute to the theorization of migration according to a critical, intersectional and decolonial approach that conceives migrants as political agents and the migration regime in Tunisia as a continuum of historical violence in terms of surveillance, hierarchy and racism.
- Offer an educational course to associations and organizations dealing with the issue of migration and people on the move in order to help them identify the social reality of people in need of support or humanitarian aid and, among other things, to help them better manage interventions more effectively with target populations
- Produce artistic media, through photography, short documentaries and a literary booklet recounting racist violence based upon migrants' testimonies, in order to raise society's awareness of the impacts of racism and discrimination
Project Updates:
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Outputs
IRMC
Click here to read the report that came out of the field work (currently only available in French).
Meet the team:
