Tunisiens à Lampedusa : de l’étau de la misère à celui de l’Europe forteresse

L’immigration irrégulière vers l’Europe enregistre une hausse jamais vue depuis 2011. Des milliers de Tunisiens ont traversé la mer pour rejoindre l’Italie depuis le début de l’année, mais une fois arrivés, ceux qui débarquent sur l’île de Lampedusa sont en proie à une grande précarité, à la merci d’accords confidentiels que la Tunisie a signé avec l’Italie en 2011 et d’une quasi-impossibilité de demander l’asile.

Rights Ihsan Mejdi 01 November 2017

Redeyef youth in Lampedusa: marginalized at home, unwanted abroad

Two weeks ago, minister of the Interior Lotfi Brahem received Italian ambassador to Tunisia Raimondo De Cardona to strengthen cooperation on fighting crime and tackling illegal immigration. On the same day, October 18, 25 years old, Ahmed, from Redeyef reached Lampedusa illegally, on a boat carrying Tunisian youth mainly from the same small mining town in the mid-western governorate of Gafsa.

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Tunisiens à Lampedusa : de l’étau de la misère à celui de l’Europe forteresse

Redeyef youth in Lampedusa: marginalized at home, unwanted abroad

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