Revolution and Migration in Tunisia: A Matter of Civil Society?

Abstract

This chapter shows how the “democratic transition” initiated by the Revolution of Dignity in Tunisia has profoundly changed the frameworks of intervention usually adopted by EU externalisation processes. As the issue of migration is politicised in post-2011 Tunisia, migration control measures are invisibilised. At the same time, civil society appears as a new actor in the process. The institutionalised participation of civil society in the EU-Tunisia Mobility Partnership negotiations shows the ambiguity of the power dynamics between global governance, the Tunisian government, and the people of Tunisia.