69 research outputs found
Migrationsforsker Ahlam Chemlali: Migrationskrisen blev aldrig løst, og EU står nu svagere end i 2015
No full textForsker Ahlam Chemlali: Regeringens plan om asyllejre i Nordafrika underkender de sidste seks års migrationserfaringer i og omkring Middelhavet
No full textDanish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe:AMIS Seminar Report
No full textThis report is the result of a collaborative effort based on the seminar convened at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies ́ (AMIS), the University of Copenhagen on Friday February 26th, 2021, entitled Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe: A research-based discussion.The starting-point for the seminar was the ambition to shine a research-based, multidisciplinary and critical discussion on the Danish government’s legislative proposal to externalize Danish asylum processing and refugee responsibilities away from Danish territory, and through this, to inspire and impact the ongoing legislative hearing process. The seminar gathered four researchers, Ahlam Chemlali, Zachary Whyte, Nikolas Feith Tan and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, who through their individual research were well positioned to engage with the proposal based on their in-depth knowledge of Danish and international asylum and migration policy. Scientifically, their backgrounds span the disciplines of sociology and political economy, ethnography and anthropology, law and international relations. In the seminar and now in this AMIS report, the presentations engaged with the proposal through discussions of the evolution of externalization in Danish and international contexts, of the intertwined dynamics of externalization, control and smuggling, with European-North African relations, of Danish asylum and integration policies involving camps, and of the international legal regimes concerning transnational asylum and border control. Each of these presentations has subsequently been converted into stand-alone, but complementary, written interventions designed to inform the public and political debate following the proposal. I would like to express my gratitude to the speakers, the participating audience, the AMIS team, and Marie Sandberg, director of AMIS, for hosting the event
Interview with Ahlam Mosteghanemi
No full textمقابلة بين المراسله إيمان رافع والروائية الجزائرية أحلام مستغانمى، صاحبه أول عمل روائي جزائري نسائي باللغة العربية، عن الوضع الحالي للجزائر ونظره كاملة علي جذور المشكل الجزائري بين الامس واليوم.An interview between correspondent Iman Rafi and Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi, author of the first Algerian novelist's work in Arabic, regarding the current situation in Algeria and his comprehensive look at the Algerian dilemma between the past and now
Interview with Ahlam Mosteghanemi
No full textمقابلة بين المراسله إيمان رافع والروائية الجزائرية أحلام مستغانمى، صاحبه أول عمل روائي جزائري نسائي باللغة العربية، عن هل هناك وسيله لانقاذ الجزائر من دوامه العنف التي تعيشه وكيف يتعايش المجتمع الجزائري مع المذابح اليوميه التي تجري هناك وهل هذا المناخ التي تعيشه الجزائر ينعكس في الأعمال الأدبيه لواحده من أبناء الجزائر عرفت بأنها صاحبة أول عمل روائي نسائي.An interview between correspondent Iman Rafi and Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi about whether there is a way to save Algeria from the spiral of violence it is experiencing, how Algerian society coexists with the daily massacres that occur there, and how the Algerian climate is reflected in the literary works of the author of the first novel
Myten om menneskesmuglerne skygger for virkeligheden ved EU's grænser
No full textEU's migrationspolitik er bygget på en stereotyp og unuanceret forestilling om den skruppelløse og kyniske menneskesmugler. Menneskesmuglere er dog ofte helt almindelige mennesker, fattige fiskere, tidligere migranter eller unge, der tager sagen i egen hånd. Omvendt er mange af de lokale myndigheder, som får penge fra EU for at bremse migranter, ofte involveret i smuglinge
LIVING AND DYING IN TRANSIT:VIOLENCE, BODIES AND SURVIVAL IN THE TUNISIAN BORDERLANDS
No full textWhat can a deeper understanding of violence, bodies, and transit under global border regimes reveal about contemporary migration management?Tunisia, situated along the central Mediterranean migration route connecting Africa to Europe, has in recent years become a key “transit country”, placing it at the heart of European migration policy. As a result, it has evolved into a crucial laboratory for the EU’s externalization strategies, where border control is outsourced and tested, far from European territory.This dissertation explores life and death in transit in the Tunisian borderlands through a bottom-up gendered lens. Based on ethnographic fieldwork across Tunisia and hundreds of interviews with migrants, smugglers, gravediggers, forensic doctors, coastguards, fishermen, diplomats, the study traces how ripple effects of externalisation shape everyday life in the borderlands. It shows how people navigate a system that produces harm by design - not as failure, but as function.It calls for a critical rethinking of how we understand and govern migration. As restrictive border regimes grow, so do their human, social, and environmental costs. By centering lived experiences in Tunisias borderlands, the study reveals how people navigate, resist, and survive, offering not just a regional case, but a reflection of global dynamics and a call to imagine more just and humane futures of mobility.<br/
A Mother’s Choice:Undocumented Motherhood, Waiting and Smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan Borderlands
No full textAnecdotal evidence suggests growing numbers of migrants intercepted at sea – referred to by the Tunisian coastguard as les rescapés (the rescued) – return to Libya via smuggling. In this article I empirically document the experiences of “rescued” migrant mothers who consider and/or purposely re-engage in irregular, highrisk returns involving crossing the Tunisian border back into Libya. Employing a feminist ethnographic approach, this paper explores how undocumented motherhood is experienced and shaped in the context of EU-sponsored counter-smuggling and border enforcement. Building on fieldwork in Medénine, in southern Tunisia, I also examine the considerations of migrant mothers “stuck on the move” concerning clandestine navigation and redirection in the complicated temporal and spatial context created by international organizations and EU-sponsored forms of “protection.” I argue that border enforcement and counter-smuggling policies not only impact everyday life and mobility for undocumented mothers and their children but, as gendered practices, also trap and confine migrant mothers and their children in a cycle of protracted vulnerability, indefinite waiting, and uncertainty in which opting to travel with smugglers becomes the best bet and last resort.Anecdotal evidence suggests growing numbers of migrants intercepted at sea – referred to by the Tunisian coastguard as les rescapés (the rescued) – return to Libya via smuggling. In this article I empirically document the experiences of “rescued” migrant mothers who consider and/or purposely re-engage in irregular, high-risk returns involving crossing the Tunisian border back into Libya. Employing a feminist ethnographic approach, this paper explores how undocumented motherhood is experienced and shaped in the context of EU-sponsored counter-smuggling and border enforcement. Building on fieldwork in Medénine, in southern Tunisia, I also examine the considerations of migrant mothers “stuck on the move” concerning clandestine navigation and redirection in the complicated temporal and spatial context created by international organizations and EU-sponsored forms of “protection.” I argue that border enforcement and counter-smuggling policies not only impact everyday life and mobility for undocumented mothers and their children but, as gendered practices, also trap and confine migrant mothers and their children in a cycle of protracted vulnerability, indefinite waiting, and uncertainty in which opting to travel with smugglers becomes the best bet and last resort
Rescued and Contained:Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands
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