Rethinking Borders,
From the South Outward

We explore the impact of borders, mobility, and migration policies on North African societies.  Our goal is to produce and share knowledge from the Global South — through research, stories, and collaboration.

Our Story, Our Roots

Based at the Social-Anthropology Centre of the University of Sousse, we are researchers from Tunisia, Africa, Europe, and the USA.

Together, we explore how borders affect societies, especially in North Africa, and how research from the South can influence global understanding and change.

What Drives Us

We aim to reshape border studies through collaboration, decolonial thinking, and knowledge from the Global South.

Inequality & Mobility

Explore global injustice through the lens of migration

Support Young Scholars

Offer training, writing workshops, and publishing guidance

New Methods

Decolonial and interdisciplinary approaches to border studies

South–South Knowledge

Link researchers across Africa and other key border zones

Identity & Religion

Examine how borders shape beliefs and subjectivities

Migration Pathways

Study intra-African mobility, history, and displacement

Border Policies Impact

Analyze externalization, deportation, and pandemic controls

North–South Collaboration

Build lasting research networks and exchange programs

Latest Articles

Dive into our latest work on migration, bordering practices, and global inequality. 

By Wael Garnaoui, Montassir Sakhi | December 2024

From colonization to Schengenisation

In studying the postcolonial shift which, a few decades after the independence of the countries of the southern Mediterranean, gave rise to …

Visa policies and the traumas of immobility

Man is born free. This assertion is common not only to modern philosophies and ancient religions, but also to the political critique of our modern and …

Colonization, immigration, and borderization: Contemporary perspectives of the Moroccan and Tunisian left

This article aims to analyze the main discourse of political actors in the Tunisian and Moroccan left in regard to the migration issue. The evolution of this …

Shared Moments

We host workshops, talks, and exchange programs that bring together students and researchers from across the world. 

Past

Centenaire de la naissance de Frantz Fanon

Faculté de médecine Ibn El Jazzar Sousse 

21/02/2025

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Past

Accueil de l'équipage et retour sur la route migratoire méditerranéenne

Institut Supérieur Agronomique de Chott Mariem , Sousse, Tunisia

03/10/2024