Number and distribution of intercepts and operations arrested in Tunisia
Since June 2024, Tunisian authorities have stopped publishing any data on migrant interceptions along Tunisia’s coastline. They have blocked all alternative sources of data, making it impossible to access any detailed data.
Therefore, the data related to the number of migrants during 2024 is not true, as we observed during the first six months of the year 32644 migrants who were intercepted
While we were unable by all means to monitor 799 migrants intercepted during the second semester due to the closure of every possible source of data.
Therefore, the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights estimates that the number of migrants intercepted in 2024 exceeded 80,000 migrants.
The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights demands the release of data on the number of migrants intercepted and the number of victims and missing persons along the Tunisian coast in 2024.
THE SECURITIZATION OF MIGRATION IN TUNISIA
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.
