Migrants in Tunisia: Detained and Deported
In the past few months, we witnessed the attempt to strengthen the project of European borders’ externalization. The new externalization plan would include:
• policies for controlling and intercepting migrants directed to Europe—as part of the Karthoum process established on November 28, 2014 but already announced by the Mediterranean Task Force in November 2013;
• asylum policies, according to what the Italian Ministry of the Interior Angelino Alfano proposed during the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council of March 12, 2015. Tunisia, together with Egypt, Morocco, Niger, and Sudan is presented as one of the “laboratories” where the first projects of asylum externalizations would be implemented, with the opening of “reception” centers sponsored by the European Union. The European Union will also ask Tunisia and Egypt to engage in search and rescue operations.
Should this plan be implemented, migrant boats coming from Libya would be intercepted by the Tunisian Garde Nationale, migrants would be disembarked in Tunisia, and Tunisian authorities would proceed to processing asylum claims and managing status refugees, with the support of IOM and UNHCR. This is the goal that the European Union already tried to achieve in March 2014, when it signed a Mobility Partnership with Tunisia, which has not been implemented yet.
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