The refusal of the immigrants escalates again in Tunisia

In Tunisia, they are more intense in Tunisia, refusing the presence of migrants from sub -Saharan Africa, amid demands to intensify their deportations to their countries of origin. And since the Tunisian security forces expelled immigrants from the public squares in the center of the city of Sfax, in the center of the country, in August 2023, thousands of them resorted to olive fields in the Al -Amra and Jabaniana regions of the state of Sfax, to establish camps for them, and a number of them were dismantled under popular pressure two days ago.

The head of the Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Abdel Kabir, told Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that “the olive fields in the Al -Amra and Jabanana regions include more than 30 hidden camps for immigrants of different nationalities from sub -Saharan Africa,” noting that “the intervention that led to the dismantling of one camp and the removal of plastic tents and service shops held by immigrants.” Abdel -Kabeer added that “a number of immigrants in the camp (dismantled) were transferred towards other destinations,” and saw that “the dismantling of the camps and the transportation of migrants from one place to another that prolongs the crisis of migrants in Tunisia and increases the file complicated.”

Abdel Kabir warned that “Tunisia may lose its compass in managing the migrant file in the absence of legislation and national plans to interfere in this thorny regional file.” He suggested that “the badge and the escape between the Tunisian authorities and the migrants continue in the absence of radical solutions to the crisis,” noting that it “is getting more complicated as Tunisian citizens’ escalation continues against this category.”

For years, Tunisia represented a major crossing point for expatriates from sub -Saharan Africa and their destination for the northern West Bank of the Mediterranean. In the country, record flows were recorded from immigrants who were reaching them in land, sea and air, and their goal was to head later towards Italy from the sea, in the deadly migration boats that ended them mostly unidentified bodies in the Mediterranean. But Tunisia is no longer a safe way for immigrants, so their presence on its soil has declined in a remarkable way in recent months, while more than 7,200 of them chose the voluntary return to their countries of origin by paying the initiatives of the International Organization for Migration.

In a related context, a member of the Tunisian League for Human Rights in Sfax, Hammadi Hammadi, told Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that “the dismantling of the migrants’ tents is one of the most prominent mechanisms that the authorities adopted to absorb popular anger against them.” Hammadi added that “the civil organizations are no longer able to carry out the necessary field insignificant and visit the camps as a result of the refusal of the migrants due to the consequences that these visits violate and their exposure to demonization and the high racist practices against them.”