Reinventing a Broken Wheel

<p>On 16 July, the European Commission and the Tunisian government signed a new strategic partnership on migration, sparking outrage by European parliamentarians, researchers and civil society actors given Tunisia’s autocratic turn since 2021 and the recent flaring up of racial and xenophobic...

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Main Author: Katharina Natter
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Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH 2023-09-01
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description <p>On 16 July, the European Commission and the Tunisian government signed a new strategic partnership on migration, sparking outrage by European parliamentarians, researchers and civil society actors given Tunisia’s autocratic turn since 2021 and the recent flaring up of racial and xenophobic violence. The deal is emblematic of the blind spots of trans-Mediterranean migration cooperation over the past decades: First, a growing reliance on informality and symbolic politics at the expense of accountability; and second, a persistently Euro-centrist perspective that overlooks the dynamics South of the Mediterranean, with dire policy consequences.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-678dd38e37bc472f88bb5b2ad781f9342023-09-05T12:43:58ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442023-09-012366-7044Reinventing a Broken WheelKatharina Natter<p>On 16 July, the European Commission and the Tunisian government signed a new strategic partnership on migration, sparking outrage by European parliamentarians, researchers and civil society actors given Tunisia’s autocratic turn since 2021 and the recent flaring up of racial and xenophobic violence. The deal is emblematic of the blind spots of trans-Mediterranean migration cooperation over the past decades: First, a growing reliance on informality and symbolic politics at the expense of accountability; and second, a persistently Euro-centrist perspective that overlooks the dynamics South of the Mediterranean, with dire policy consequences.</p> https://verfassungsblog.de/reinventing-a-broken-wheel/EU Commission, EU-Tunisia Deal, informalisation, Kais Saied, Migration, Tunisia
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topic EU Commission, EU-Tunisia Deal, informalisation, Kais Saied, Migration, Tunisia
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