Studies confirm that more than half of the Tunisian youth wants to emigrate! Lower-middle class segments of the population are the ones most willing to “burn the borders”, followed by the poor and destitute groups. The importance of the economic dimension doesn’t mean that it is the only motivation for border burning as it can also be influenced by cultural and psychological factors.
With the decline of agricultural revenues, Egyptian farmers have lost their lands. The incomes offormal andfactory works are not sufficient to keep pace with the increasingly high living costs. The paradigm of the migrant is a seductive one for the villagers and has played a role in changing traditional standards and values.
The discourse of border burners is undoubtedly political. Unemployment – or, to be more precise the absence of a stable and legal economic activity -, the lack of housing, the...
Stories of “border burners” going from Tunisia to Italy, as told by them: the desire to leave, the journey by sea, the accommodation centers and the repatriation. A narration of...
Despite the infamous story of the “Rasheed” shipwreck, it does not differ in any way from other scenarios of irregular migration in Egypt which all go through five stages…
Minors who immigrate alone come from different cities and regions of the country even from what is known as the “good Morocco” such as Casablanca, Tangiers or the capital Rabat....
The unprecedented process of popular unity since “October uprising”, show that Iraqi women and men are healing from decades of war and social fragmentation.
The political arena is frozen in Algeria as the political forces have neither the right to exist as organizations nor as discourses. In the face of a liberal “Mafia” imposed...
A map of the forces of the left in Morocco and of the left’s multiple schisms, noting its weaknesses, its characteristic fragmentation and its intellectual dilemmas, as “the Left”becomes, in...
Who are the sub-Saharan migrants? This article profiles some of the places where they reside, humanizing what has been often approached collectively in generalizations, as the issue of these migrants...
The legal details surrounding the issue of irregular migration through Egypt… The status of the Sudanese and Syrian migrants and the story of those coming from African countries to sneak...
