Interview
August 2021

Algeria: Has the Hirak failed politically?

Interview with Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa (University of Marburg, MECAM Center Tunis)

Article
July 2021

Decrypting ICMPD

How a Vienna-based organization coordinates and facilitates for the expansion of a restrictive multi-stakeholder border control regime in Tunisia and beyond.

Article
July 2021

Algeria Trapped between Repression and Hope

Massive election boycott and escalating police violence overshadow the parliamentary elections

Guide
August 2020

Uranium Atlas

Facts and Data about the Raw Material of the Atomic Age

Article
July 2020

Action Matters: Six success stories of struggles for commons in Africa

The continuous advance of neoliberal capitalism even in the context of systemic crisis has led to many questions about the lack of effective answers from the Left in general, and from progressive social movement organizations in particular. Many critics argue..

Article
July 2020

COVID-19 Is Grist to the Border Regime Mill

Months after the coronavirus outbreak turned into a global health crisis, it is still unclear how the pandemic will affect social inequalities, economies, and migration movements in the mid and long term

Article
June 2020

Call for a resilient agriculture

The Tunisian agricultural model must be thought with an open mind and a different outlook

Research paper
June 2020

The migration issue in Tunisia: Stakes and challenges

A study about the major challenges posed by Tunisia’s management of the migration issue

Article
April 2020

The feminization of precarious work

Nine texts from five countries, covering different work sectors. This folder portrays female characters, with paths that call for affection, admiration and respect.

Research paper
February 2020

What Democracy for Tunisian Workers?

This paper attempts to highlight how the post -2011 top- down neoliberal, macroeconomic reform program is at odds with the popular demands expressed in a bottom up mobilization of Tunisian workers struggling not only for jobs but for better conditions and more rights.

Article
January 2020

Migrations: Harraga’s stories

This folder completes the topic of irregular migration in an attempt to capture the causes of this phenomenon, which we call here – without any exaggeration – the “great escape”.

Article
January 2020

Migrations: stuck in transit countries stories

The massive movement of displacement taking place today (more than 68.5 million people on the roads in the world) cannot be considered as a product of “crises” limited to the presence of conflicts or civil wars, racial or religious persecution, or even as a product of Europe’s attractiveness/dream or paradise, as it is sometimes said as an explanation of the migrants’ movement towards it.