Channelled Policy Transfers: EU-Tunisia Interactions on Migration Matters

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Jean-Pierre Cassarino’s article analyses how the Tunisian government’s migration policy options were shaped through repeated interactions with the European Union and its Member States. It argues that a gradually consolidated hierarchy of priorities came to dominate those exchanges, with operability and security taking precedence and human-rights concerns being pushed aside, leaving a serious imprint on human-rights observance in Tunisia.