Algeria: Has the Hirak failed politically?
Interview with Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa (University of Marburg, MECAM Center Tunis)
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.
Algeria Trapped between Repression and Hope
Massive election boycott and escalating police violence overshadow the parliamentary elections
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..
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
Call for a resilient agriculture
The Tunisian agricultural model must be thought with an open mind and a different outlook
The migration issue in Tunisia: Stakes and challenges
A study about the major challenges posed by Tunisia’s management of the migration issue
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.
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.
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”.
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.