Ahlam Chemlali
@ahlamchemlali.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow @aau.dk | Researching migration, violence, confinement I North Africa and the Mediterranean borderlands
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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
August 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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
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
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
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
June 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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
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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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
June 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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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...
Here's what you need to know.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
May 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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...
Here's what you need to know.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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‘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...
Jérôme Tubiana on Europe’s complicity in Libyan treatment of migrants:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
‘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...
Jérôme Tubiana on Europe’s complicity in Libyan treatment of migrants:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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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
Bottom line- Dbeiba did what he did to protect his position & protests are being exploited how they are by those who covet it
May 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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
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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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...
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.
www.theatlantic.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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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...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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.
www.latimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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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...
Guantánamo Migrant Operation Has Held Fewer Than 500 Detainees, and None in Tents
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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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...
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...
edition.cnn.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
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.
theintercept.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
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...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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.
www.latimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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...
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...
edition.cnn.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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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."
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."
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.
www.justsecurity.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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."
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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Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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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"‘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:
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
Introducing 'Felt Externalisation': Exploring the Human and Environmental Impacts of EU Borders
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"‘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:
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
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.
April 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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.
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!
The dissertation will be publicly available once the defence is announced - stay tuned for the date!
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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!
The dissertation will be publicly available once the defence is announced - stay tuned for the date!
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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
April 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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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...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Conflicting realities: mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
April 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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.
The Trump administration canceled dozens of international student visas at the University of California, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and Stanford University.
Trump administration cancels dozens of international student visas at University of California, Stanford
The Trump administration canceled dozens of international student visas at the University of California, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and Stanford University.
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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"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."
[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...
April 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"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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[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...
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
[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...
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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.
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.
interc.pt
March 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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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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.
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.
euobserver.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.