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Ahlam Chemlali

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Co-Director & Postdoctoral Fellow | Migration, violence and confinement between North Africa and the Mediterranean borderlands

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Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My first book - on Honduras, migration, and the extended violence of borders - is coming out in March. Preorders are available now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org or directly through @ucpress.bsky.social — with a 30% off discount code "UCPSAVE30." www.ucpress.edu/books/leave-...
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Leave If You Can by Amelia Frank-Vitale - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 13/12/2025
Tracking Every US Strike on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific The Trump administration is committing illegal strike after illegal strike. Don’t look away, and don’t lose track, writes @premthakker.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-b...
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Tracking Every US Strike on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific
The Trump administration is committing illegal strike after illegal strike. Don’t look away, and don’t lose track.
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Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic @dittemunch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Finally had the chance to hear @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social present the findings from her PhD on the everyday experiences of violence and discrimination of women migrants in Tunesia @diis.dk @aau.dk vbn.aau.dk/da/publicati...
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 23/05/2025
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...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/05/2025
‘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...
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Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Safe and Unsafe Ports
In 2019, I made several visits to Dhar al-Jebel, a Libyan detention centre better known as Zintan, after the nearest...
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Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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...
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The Immigration Pendulum Is Swinging Once Again
Trump was elected, in part, on a pledge to crack down on immigration. But he may be overinterpreting his mandate.
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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...
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Opinion: How the U.S. is repeating Europe's failed migration policies
The U.S. is moving asylum operations to Latin America. This follows Europe's decades-old policy of 'externalizing' the crackdown on migrants.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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...
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Guantánamo Migrant Operation Has Held Fewer Than 500 Detainees, and None in Tents
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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...
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Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/05/2025
After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
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U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home.
After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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...
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Opinion: How the U.S. is repeating Europe's failed migration policies
The U.S. is moving asylum operations to Latin America. This follows Europe's decades-old policy of 'externalizing' the crackdown on migrants.
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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...
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Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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."
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Non-Refoulement Obligations and the Alien Enemies Act Removals
Non-refoulement prohibits states from removing from their jurisdiction any person who could be at risk of human rights violations.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/05/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.
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Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"‘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:
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Introducing 'Felt Externalisation': Exploring the Human and Environmental Impacts of EU Borders
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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.
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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!
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Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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...
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Conflicting realities: mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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.
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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"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."
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
[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...
Blog title and quote. Reads: Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands. By Ahlam Chemlali. Quote: “Tunisia has become a de facto holding site where migrants face structural violence, prolonged immobility, and limited access to protection.”
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/03/2025
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.
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In Trump’s America, You Can Be Disappeared for Writing an Op-Ed
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.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 20/03/2025
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.
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A breakdown of how the EU migration crackdown isn't working
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.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 27/03/2025
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
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Smuggling and migration in South America | Mixed Migration Centre
This paper explores the use of smugglers by migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean on their journeys through South America.
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Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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.
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inkyfada | إنكفاضة @inkyfada.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#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...
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Sofian Philip Naceur @sofiannaceur.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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...
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Deutsche Polizeihilfen für die Festung Algerien
Die Bundesregierung unterstützt Algerien mit polizeilichen Maßnahmen – offiziell zur Dokumentensicherheit, faktisch zur Migrationsabwehr. Das Regime nutzt deutsche Technik auch für illegale Abschiebun...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 17/03/2025
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.
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Enquête | Crise migratoire : ce que révèlent les chiffres sur la coopération entre Tunis et l’Union européenne
La Tunisie, autrefois carrefour entre l’Afrique et l’Europe, se retrouve désormais au cœur d’une crise migratoire d’ampleur inédite. En 2023, le pays a dépassé la Libye pour devenir la principale…
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
A screengrab of Google news search results showing stories about the EU funding migrant detention centers and programs in Turkey, Tunisia and Libya, all of which hav ebeen tied to abuse.
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Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hello 👋🏽 Just landed here! How are people using this space for research, discussions, and networking? Let’s connect!
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