Sofian Philip Naceur
@sofiannaceur.bsky.social
Journalist, currently Tunis/Rome, working on 🇪🇬🇩🇿🇹🇳🇵🇸 border regimes, migration, arms trade Contact: mail(a)sofiannaceur.de
"Verglichen mit Al-Sisi war Mubarak ein Menschenrechtsaktivist." Hossam el-Hamalawy, 2023 Book review "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Al-Sisi's new republic" via @nd-aktuell.de www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200...
Ägypten: Im Krieg gegen das eigene Volk
Der ägyptische Präsident Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi hat eine »Neue Republik« etabliert und den Repressionsapparat unter seine alleinige Kontrolle gestellt.
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"Verglichen mit Al-Sisi war Mubarak ein Menschenrechtsaktivist." Hossam el-Hamalawy, 2023 Book review "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Al-Sisi's new republic" via @nd-aktuell.de www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200...
Ägypten: Im Krieg gegen das eigene Volk
Der ägyptische Präsident Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi hat eine »Neue Republik« etabliert und den Repressionsapparat unter seine alleinige Kontrolle gestellt.
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"Flucht, Hoffnung, Zukunft. Daten und Fakten über Menschen in Bewegung" – Heute ist die 3. Ausgabe des Atlas der #Migration der @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social erschienen, die ich mit Johanna Bussemer und Dorit Riethmüller herausgegeben habe. Download & Bestellung hier 👉 www.rosalux.de/publikation/...
Atlas der Migration 2026 - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Flucht, Hoffnung, Zukunft – Daten und Fakten über Menschen in Bewegung
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Across northern Africa, #UNHCR is turned into a mere service provider 1) In #Egypt it is being replaced by a state agency 2) The asylum law in #Algeria might have a similar outcome 3) The Grand Mufti in #Libya wants UNHCR to be expelled 4) The #Tunisia, the gov prevents UNHCR from registrations
Sofian Philip Naceur@sofiannaceur.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter adopting a controversial asylum law in 2024, #Egypt drafts bylaws for the legislation, aims at replacing UNHCR with a state agency within 9 months to restrictively handle asylum files www.madamasr.com/en/2026/06/0...
After adopting a controversial asylum law in 2024, #Egypt drafts bylaws for the legislation, aims at replacing UNHCR with a state agency within 9 months to restrictively handle asylum files www.madamasr.com/en/2026/06/0...
New refugee bylaws set 9-month deadline for state to take over asylum processing from UNHCR
The bylaws for Egypt’s first ever asylum law were finally issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly on Monday — a full year after the legal deadline for their completion. In the belated set of regulat...
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In short, the migration management fairytale is not making migration safe, but it makes the plunder of fossil and human resources prosper, racial divisions flourish and the emergence of gated fortresses evolve across the globe @roapejournal.bsky.social 11/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites/regimes to supply their security forces with modern equipment & maintain their often uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising border management funds set up by Northern states, ICMPD, UN agencies 10/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The commodification of mobility not only serves capital/knowledge accumulation in the North but also falls on fertile grounds in Africa as a key pillar of border management–police cooperation–not only provides for migration control but also keeps Southern elites in power 9/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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Since the 90s, Northern govs have funded the set-up & operation of a vast,opaque semi-institutionalized conference architecture that facilitates for informal non-public consultations on migration between Global South & North states 8/ #KhartoumProcess #RabatProcess #MIDSA roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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Various training manuals & training schemes targeting journalists or civil society in the Global South had already been launched in the past decade mostly set up to hammer an order-driven & commodified conception of migration into people’s minds 7/ @roapejournal.bsky.social roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The tools applied to promote and spread this neocolonial management notion across the globe are diverse, yet two of the most influential ones are communication and media training, and intergovernmental dialogue fora 6/ @roapejournal.bsky.social roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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In short, migration management is a blend of counterinsurgency tactics & extractivist governance, a fusion of imperial pacification & semi-formalized looting, a toolbox of carrots & sticks, imposed on racialized populations to commodify mobility & discipline the wretched 5/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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Since the 90s, (neo)liberals have, by 1st gradually & now fully embracing the migration management notion, successfully mainstreamed the merging of policies to militarize borders, control mobility, hollow out int law & address labor shortages into a single neocol concept 4/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The management spin & the slogan ‘safe,orderly & regular migration’ are nothing but deceptive smokescreens for the suppression, containment, filtering & racialization of migration in line with needs of metropolitan economies & pol interests of northern & southern elites 3/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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‘Regular’ migration is the order of the day. Yet, the notion of ‘border management’ is rooted in counterinsurgency and pacification tactics and embodies nothing but merging migration control and labor extraction into a single neocolonial concept 2/ @roapejournal.bsky.social roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The 'border management' fairytale How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements Via @Review of African Political Economy 1/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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"Global South said yes. Global North said no — or said nothing, which in diplomatic language means the same thing." Priyanka Sharma on the Ghana-led UN resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Via @roapejournal.bsky.social
Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn March, the UN passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Priyanka Sharma argues the vote was a strategic masterstroke, forcing the West to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth. roape.net/2026/05/20/t...
#Algeria continues its mass deportation ops to neighboring #Niger. Acc. to Alarmphone Sahara, more than 14,000 people have been illegally expelled by Algerian authorities between Jan and May 2026 #Migration alarmephonesahara.info/en/news/janu...
APS - January to May 2026: Mass deportations from Algeria to Niger continue on a large scale
More than 14,000 people deported between January and mid of May
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Gathanga Ndung’u - community organiser & activist at @MathareSJustice - explains how Kenya’s puppet government is helping France salvage its waning colonial grip on Africa & how the voices opposed to these imperial manoeuvres are being brutally silenced. roape.net?p=59562
Instead, a return to the defying spirit of the AU’s 2006 Position on Migration and Development that framed labor extraction or the securitization of migration as a threat could be a first step towards regaining continental leverage on migration and reimagining borders @roapejournal.bsky.social
Sofian Philip Naceur@sofiannaceur.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 'border management' fairytale How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements Via @Review of African Political Economy 1/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
Writing for roape.net, @sofiannaceur.bsky.social argues that the notion of ‘border management’ is rooted in counterinsurgency & pacification tactics, & embodies nothing but merging migration control & labor extraction into a single, neocolonial concept. roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
Das Märchen vom #Migrationsmanagement. @sofiannaceur.bsky.social sieht darin eine neokolonialistische Verschmelzung von Migrationspolitik u Arbeitsausbeutung. Link zum Artikel +🧵
Sofian Philip Naceur@sofiannaceur.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 'border management' fairytale How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements Via @Review of African Political Economy 1/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The 'border management' fairytale How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements Via @Review of African Political Economy 1/ roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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The latest from @sofiannaceur.bsky.social The border management fairytale: roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokoloniale Logik dahinter, sagen Sofian Naceur und Farid Hafez.
Hinter Europas Abschiebepolitik steckt eine Wiener Denkfabrik
Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokoloniale Logik dahinter, sagen Sofian Naceur und Farid Hafez.
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»Eine der zentralen Säulen von Migrationsmanagement ist die Polizeikooperation zwischen westlichen Staaten und postkolonialen Regierungen im Globalen Süden«, sagt der Journalist Sofian Philip Naceur im Interview.
Hinter Europas Abschiebepolitik steckt eine Wiener Denkfabrik
Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokoloniale Logik dahinter, sagen Sofian Naceur und Farid Hafez.
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Fanon hat es schon 1961 klar gemacht: »Der Wohlstand & der Fortschritt Europas sind erbaut mit dem Schweiß & den Leichen« der Kolonisierten – & daran hat sich bis heute nicht viel geändert. Daher müssen wir konsequent zurück zu materialistischer & antikolonialer Kritik an imperialer Lebensweise 4/
Ex-Integrationsministerin Susanne Raab, die jetzt Direktorin des ICMPD geworden ist, entstammt ja einer Garde an Jungpolitikern, die mithilfe der Institutionalisierung von antimuslimischem Rassismus Karriere gemacht hat 3/ jacobin.de/artikel/migr...
Hinter Europas Abschiebepolitik steckt eine Wiener Denkfabrik
Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokolonia...
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Wenn wir ausschließlich legalistisch argumentieren & Freiheiten einfordern, aber die materiellen & kolonialen Hintergründe von Flucht, Migration & Rassismus ignorieren, verpassen wir die Chance, Allianzen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen zu stärken, vor allem im Globalen Süden 2/
Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokoloniale Logik dahinter. Via @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social 1/ jacobin.de/artikel/migr...
Hinter Europas Abschiebepolitik steckt eine Wiener Denkfabrik
Europas Migrationspolitik wird in konservativen Denkfabriken wie dem ICMPD entworfen. Wer nur Abschiebungen kritisiert, aber diese Institute ignoriert, kämpft gegen Symptome statt gegen die neokolonia...
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