Security over People: Tunisia’s Immigration Crisis
Migrants have been a regular presence in Tunisia since around 2011, when they arrived in the country after fleeing instability in Libya. It is only in recent years, however, that they have become a political issue. With Tunisia’s economy in shambles and the rise of political repression, migrants within and transiting through the country have been demonized in an attempt to shift the focus and cast President Saïed as a populist hero.
Security over People: Tunisia’s Immigration Crisis—a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Security Assessment in North Africa (SANA) project—examines the perilous situation that migrants in Tunisia now find themselves in, and how Tunisia’s relationship with the EU could further jeopardise migrants’ rights, social and legal integration, and humanitarian needs.
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Irregular migration flows and Tunisia
The migration landscape in Sfax
This Situation Update was funded by a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
