Migration in Tunisia: Status Quo and the Legal Point of View
Migration in Tunisia: Status Quo and the Legal Point of View

Traditionally a country of emigration, Tunisia has gradually become a country of transit of Sub-Saharan migrants towards the “European El Dorado”. Before reaching Tunisia, they cross Libya and Algeria, two countries opening on the Sahel countries such Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan. Other factors make Tunisia a destination country thanks to the agreements abolishing visas for Nationals of many Sub-Saharan countries (article 7 of law n. 68-7 in March 1968 relative to the condition of foreigners in Tunisia). Finally, it is a preferred…

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TunisiaInside GAPsUniversity of Sousse
No place for refuge and no place for (eventual) return of Palestinians in Gaza
No place for refuge and no place for (eventual) return of Palestinians in Gaza

After Hamas launched an unprecedented bloody terrorist attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused a high death toll and involved hostage-taking, Israeli forces responded harshly through indiscriminate, “incessant bombardment of Gaza” and then launched a ground invasion. The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights noted that “there is no safe place in Gaza and there is no way out. The humanitarian and human rights…

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Germany, Sweden, Gaza, Jordan, Palestinian TerritoriesInside GAPsBICC, Uppsala University
The Plight of Afghan Return Migrants from Pakistan
The Plight of Afghan Return Migrants from Pakistan

While strategists, policymakers, and scholars around the world are overwhelmingly concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East (Israel-Gaza war) and the war in Ukraine, Afghan refugees have once again become a top agenda item for the foreign policies of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Home to the second-largest population of Afghan refugees worldwide (over 4.4 million), Pakistan ordered an ultimatum for forced deportation of 1.7 million undocumented Afghan refugees on November 1, 2023…

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AfghanistanInside GAPsBilim Organization for Research and Social Studies
Qualitative methods to understand intersectional refugee perceptions on return through a trajectory approach
Qualitative methods to understand intersectional refugee perceptions on return through a trajectory approach

Nawal is exactly how I (Susan) remember her, vibrant, energetic, smiling, dressed in a green flowing dress with a white head scarf wrapped in the Turkish style. We are sitting at the Fatih Municipality café, a cavernous grey-brown room with large windows looking onto Adnan Menderes Boulevard. Nawal orders carrot cake along with two hot teas, and we begin chatting…

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TurkeyInside GAPsOzyegin University
Cooperation is key: Germany’s plan to accelerate deportation of unsuccessful asylum seekers
Cooperation is key: Germany’s plan to accelerate deportation of unsuccessful asylum seekers

Repatriation of unsuccessful asylum seekers has risen to the top of Germany’s political agenda. Driven by a sharp rise in asylum applications, a growing backlog of deportation orders, and mounting political pressures (mainly but not only from the right), the government has come up with a set of legislative proposals which it says will make repatriation faster and more efficient. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz trailed the proposals in his…

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GermanyInside GAPsSPIA UG
Syrian Refugee Return Dynamics in the EU’s ‘Neighborhood’ – Between Externalization and Impact
Syrian Refugee Return Dynamics in the EU’s ‘Neighborhood’ – Between Externalization and Impact

When voluntary, safe and dignified, ‘return’ is often seen as the most feasible and desirable ‘durable solution’ to forced displacement. Since most refugees stay within the region of their country of origin, and the EU’s ‘effective’ restriction of mobility ensures that most people wanting to travel further afield never make it to Europe, such refugee return predominantly takes place from countries within the regions…

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NetherlandsInside GAPsStichting Radboud University