Brilliant public presentation by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social of her PhD “Living and Dying in Transit: Violence, bodies and survival in the Tunisian borderlands” @diis.dk

Last week, I defended my PhD!! 💃🏽🎓🥳 A day I’ll always remember. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me, shown up, cheered me on, and opened doors over the years, deeply grateful

An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk

Externalising asylum is the hottest trend in EU migration policy; but just 10 years ago the European Commission opposed it on humanitarian and legal grounds. Here's what you need to know. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

‘Since Libya is not safe, survivors should be taken to Italy or Malta. Yet Italian authorities had started to delay designating a port to both NGO and commercial vessels carrying rescued migrants.’ Jérôme Tubiana on Europe’s complicity in Libyan treatment of migrants: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What happened in Libya this week wasnt a spat between militias that got out of hand, these are just expressions of a broader power struggle Bottom line- Dbeiba did what he did to protect his position & protests are being exploited how they are by those who covet it

NEW -- Trump's eroding immigration approval rating follows an iron law of ICE enforcement: the more Americans see what it looks like, the less they tend to support mass deportation www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

In case you missed: This week's front-page story from Guantanamo Bay explains that those tents Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem inspected have never been used. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.

Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

With reports of Trump admin. plan to send migrants to Libya This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant "Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."

Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.

"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death." Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:

In Sonora, Mexico for the ‘Sonora-Sahara’ colloquium, grateful to join brilliant minds exploring arid borders, mobility, smuggling & violence from North Africa to the US-Mexico border.

The day has come - I’ve officially submitted my PhD!! The dissertation will be publicly available once the defence is announced - stay tuned for the date!

Open-source researchers: whether you’re actively searching for evidence re: conflict-related sexual violence or not, you may find it. We've just launched the pilot Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code w/ IICI to help www.muradcode.com/open-source-... @berkeleylaw.bsky.social

Maybe you've seen the truly shocking figures for migrant deaths in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching nearly 10,000 for 2024. How should we deal with such numbers, not least when they differ radically to other ac/counts? With Marta Sanchez Dionis in Border Criminologies. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Grateful my UCLA and Yale research stays were pre-Trump. Pretty sure I wouldn’t get in today. Maddening especially since international students pay full tuition, helping fund scholarships for local students. Everyone loses.

"Smuggling offers escape, but access is shaped by gender, class, and race, limiting routes, fees & protection. With few income-generating options, migrant women face scams, racial discrimination & heightened precarity, driven to move for [their children] yet constrained by (...) caregiving."

[New Blog 🖋️] Ahlam Chelali explores the gendered border experiences of “rescued” West African women navigating life in Tunisia after fleeing violence in Libya: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

The Trump administration’s detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk rests on an opinion article she wrote in 2024, her lawyers said in a filing.

Are arrivals really down? Yes — but only on some routes, and likely only for now. Is demand for irregular journeys declining? No. Has smuggling been disrupted? No.

How do migrants use smugglers on their journeys through South America? 👉 We conducted 1,129 4Mi surveys and 40 interviews with migrants and key informants between July & October 2024, and this is what we learned ⬇️ 🧵 1/4

1/ The 5th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! 🚨  This issue focuses on the EU’s ‘Trumpian’ agenda & the increasing role of Frontex. From sanctions used as leverage to secretive decision-making processes, externalisation remains a dangerous & destabilising force in EU policy.

#Frontières | Sur les côtes tunisiennes, de nouveaux bateaux artisanaux en métal deviennent le principal moyen de traversée des migrant·es. Peu stables, souvent surchargés, ces embarcations sont responsables de nombreux naufrages. En partenariat avec @icij.org 🔗 : inkyfada.com/fr/2025/03/2...

For years, the German government is supplying EU neighbors like #Tunisia, #Egypt or #Morocco with police training and equipment aid to reinforce migration control. Recently, Berlin also expanded its police and border control cooperation with #Algeria 1/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1189...

From @inkyfada.bsky.social: Tunisia became the main migration route to Italy in 2023, surpassing Libya. As Tunis strengthens its cooperation with the EU, confidential files obtained by ICIJ reveal the scale of this crisis, its key figures, and its impact on migrants.

Moreover, when you look at the major themes of Trump II, many are largely consistent with similar trends in Europe. On migration, for instance, the EU has funded detention camps & trained border guards in North Africa that are as bad if not worse than El Salvador's supermax prison.

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