“Sweetening the Pill”: “Civil Society” as a Tool of Sedentarisation

Abstract

This chapter analyses the forms of externalisation of EU migration policy through outsourcing to the civil society of projects aimed at constructing Tunisians as “non-mobile.” Those measures have a strong moral component and contribute to creating cleavage between “good” and “bad” Tunisians. Capacity building programmes for civil society aim at creating a suitable actor to implement those projects in Tunisia. Civil society becomes an intermediary between organisations such as Expertise France or the IOM and the “target groups,” be it the “return migrants,” the “members of the diaspora,” or the “potential candidates for irregular migration.”