Living and Dying in Transit: Violence, Space and Gender in the North African-Mediterranean Frontier

Tunisia is caught between a rock and a hard place. Located along the central Mediterranean migration route connecting Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. Tunisia has recently become the main country of departure towards Italy, placing it at the centre of EU migration policy. The presentation will explore Tunisian and European border policies as well as the strategies migrants – women and men – employ to stay safe and move on in their lives.

Ahlam Chemlali is a PhD fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Department of Migration and Global Order and Aalborg University, Department of Politics and Society in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research explores the effects of European border policies in North Africa, with particular emphasis on the local and gendered effects in the Tunisian-Libyan borderlands. Prior to her PhD Chemlali worked almost a decade in a human rights organisation on issues related to migration, violence and torture. Chemlali has published in Geopolitics, Trends in Organized Crime, Forced Migration Review and Revue Tunisienne de Science Politique.

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