Sofian Philip NaceurMigration control has turned into an ever-present subject of discourses & state policies across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in #Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported. Thus, this @FT_DES report aims at contributing to bridge this gap 1/
In 2023, #Algeria responded to #Tunisia-s new deportation practices by also tightening migration control. Mass expulsions of people by ALG authorities to #Niger were expanded while the state deports more & more people to #Libya & once again, to #Morocco 2/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
The image of a prosperous New Algeria, propagated by President #Tebboune & the regime since 2021, is strongly contradicted by the reporting about the increasing number of Algerian harraga who are once again favoring the risks of clandestine migration over remaining in #Algeria 3/
In the past, #Algeria, unlike neighboring countries, was considered extremely reluctant to formally integrate into the European border regime, near-consistently refusing to take part in Europe-funded ‘border management’ projects 4/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
Under President #Tebboune and army chief #Chengriha, however, the state initiated a cautious turnaround and expanded its (anti-)migration cooperation with #Italy, #Germany and #IOM, mostly in regards to police training and deportation cooperation 5/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
The state’s reprisals against non-Algerian harraga, their precarisation and the widespread racism (re-)produced by the state and large parts of society are, however,in stark contrast to #Algeria-s anti-imperialist past 6/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
This report is also available in Arabic. A French version will follow soon @FT_DES 12/ https://ftdes.net/ar/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/
