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Mohamed Salah Chatti
This research seeks to analyze the securitization of migration in Tunisia by focusing on the way different political agents and influential actors on social media represent sub-Saharan migrants as sources of societal, existential and economic risks. Using the theoretical framework of Securitization Theory as developed by the Copenhagen and Paris schools and mobilizing the tools of the Sociology of Social problems, the research argues that representing migrants as sources of threat is a process that results from the intersection of the actions and interests of multiple actors emanating from different social and political fields and who are impacted by national and international constraints. The analysis focuses on discourses as well as on the national and international contexts that favored the securitization of migration in Tunisia. It puts under study the practices and tools deployed against migrants while shedding light on their political and symbolic aspects and effects on the immigrants and the state.
