Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)

The fight against human trafficking is one of the key pillars of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (ETF) decided following the 2015 Valletta Summit. Tunisia and Ivory Coast have been two recipient states of multiple funds from the ETF. While these two countries have different migration profiles, t...

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Main Author: Camille Cassarini
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Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2023-06-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/10981
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description The fight against human trafficking is one of the key pillars of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (ETF) decided following the 2015 Valletta Summit. Tunisia and Ivory Coast have been two recipient states of multiple funds from the ETF. While these two countries have different migration profiles, they are both considered "problematic" from a migration perspective. In addition to the high proportion of Ivorian and Tunisian nationals in the so-called irregular arrivals on European coasts, there has been a continuous increase in the number of Ivorian nationals arriving in Tunisia since 2011. Based on a 16-month ethnographic survey conducted between Tunisia and Ivory Coast, this article aims to analyse the modalities of implementation of the fight against human trafficking in the associative and humanitarian spaces of the two countries by questioning more particularly the forms of mediation and appropriation of these programmes at the local scale. After having restituted the institutional productions of the two countries in the area of human trafficking, it is shown how these programs have been produced and mediated in the two different national contexts. In Tunisia, the fight against trafficking has been translated around the narrative of the democratic transition, while in Ivory Coast, it has been built around child labour. Secondly, we examine the ways in which these programmes are implemented at the local scale, both at the scale of non-governmental organisations and at the scale of community associations. Between diversions for protection purposes and reuses in the fight against immigration, we will examine the diversity of uses of these programmes by associative and humanitarian actors. More generally, this article, while demonstrating the way in which the fight against trafficking has become a new tool of migration control, also contributes to the more general debates surrounding the logics of externalisation and internalisation of the international migration government in Africa.
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spelling doaj.art-565a0ddd715b486db4dab4d2f259af772023-07-04T09:53:19ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002023-06-014610.4000/espacepolitique.10981Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)Camille CassariniThe fight against human trafficking is one of the key pillars of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (ETF) decided following the 2015 Valletta Summit. Tunisia and Ivory Coast have been two recipient states of multiple funds from the ETF. While these two countries have different migration profiles, they are both considered "problematic" from a migration perspective. In addition to the high proportion of Ivorian and Tunisian nationals in the so-called irregular arrivals on European coasts, there has been a continuous increase in the number of Ivorian nationals arriving in Tunisia since 2011. Based on a 16-month ethnographic survey conducted between Tunisia and Ivory Coast, this article aims to analyse the modalities of implementation of the fight against human trafficking in the associative and humanitarian spaces of the two countries by questioning more particularly the forms of mediation and appropriation of these programmes at the local scale. After having restituted the institutional productions of the two countries in the area of human trafficking, it is shown how these programs have been produced and mediated in the two different national contexts. In Tunisia, the fight against trafficking has been translated around the narrative of the democratic transition, while in Ivory Coast, it has been built around child labour. Secondly, we examine the ways in which these programmes are implemented at the local scale, both at the scale of non-governmental organisations and at the scale of community associations. Between diversions for protection purposes and reuses in the fight against immigration, we will examine the diversity of uses of these programmes by associative and humanitarian actors. More generally, this article, while demonstrating the way in which the fight against trafficking has become a new tool of migration control, also contributes to the more general debates surrounding the logics of externalisation and internalisation of the international migration government in Africa.http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/10981TunisiaIvory Coastmigration policieshuman traffickinghumanitarianNGOs
spellingShingle Camille Cassarini
Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
L'Espace Politique
Tunisia
Ivory Coast
migration policies
human trafficking
humanitarian
NGOs
title Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
title_full Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
title_fullStr Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
title_full_unstemmed Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
title_short Fabriquer la traite, négocier la protection : échelles, acteurs et enjeux d’un dispositif transnational de contrôle des mobilités (Tunisie, Côte d’Ivoire)
title_sort fabriquer la traite negocier la protection echelles acteurs et enjeux d un dispositif transnational de controle des mobilites tunisie cote d ivoire
topic Tunisia
Ivory Coast
migration policies
human trafficking
humanitarian
NGOs
url http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/10981
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