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Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the field of migration: the case of Tunisia
March 26, 20257:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In French, with simultaneous live translation into Spanish.
On Wednesday, March 26, we are organizing a new session of the “Aula Árabe Universitaria” lecture series in Madrid, to be given by Neïla Dorra Jaibi, a professor at the University of Tunis. This is the eleventh session in the series.
Neïla Dorra Jaibi, a professor of European Law and Migration Law at the University of Tunis, will be analyzing the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the southern Mediterranean countries on migration within the framework of developing of the external facet of the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) and its impact on the place of the migration issue in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
As a case study, the conference will be examining the cooperation occurring with Tunisia, to take a look at how these developments have conditioned cooperation on migration in the EU and Tunisia, from the Association Agreement which came into force as of 1998 and up to the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2023, creating a strategic, comprehensive partnership between the EU and Tunisia.
In a field in which both the sovereign powers of the State and the protection of human rights are at stake, Prof. Jaibi will be analyzing the nature of the tools implemented as part of the framework for cooperation on migration and asylum between the EU and neighboring countries, as well as the progress, problems and lessons learned in the work performed to date in this arena, in what has become a difficult search for balance between freedom and security, as well as the relationship between cooperation and political will.
Among other topics, we will be discussing whether the promotion of human rights internally within the European Union has been accompanied by the protection of migrants’ rights externally.
Organized with the cooperation of the IEMed’s Aula Mediterrània and Casa Mediterráneo (the speaker will be giving one talk in Alicante and another in Barcelona), with collaboration by the Master’s degree program in Democracy and Government (UAM). Representing that Master’s degree program, the session will be presented by Irene Martín Cortés, Vice-Rector of Internationalization and a professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The debate will be moderated by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Casa Árabe’s Cultural Programs.
Neïla Dorra Jaibi is a professor of European Law and Migration Law at the University of Tunis and the director of the Migration and Asylum Legal Clinic. Her publications focus on security and mobility issues in EU migration policy, international law, constitutional law and migration.
As a case study, the conference will be examining the cooperation occurring with Tunisia, to take a look at how these developments have conditioned cooperation on migration in the EU and Tunisia, from the Association Agreement which came into force as of 1998 and up to the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2023, creating a strategic, comprehensive partnership between the EU and Tunisia.
In a field in which both the sovereign powers of the State and the protection of human rights are at stake, Prof. Jaibi will be analyzing the nature of the tools implemented as part of the framework for cooperation on migration and asylum between the EU and neighboring countries, as well as the progress, problems and lessons learned in the work performed to date in this arena, in what has become a difficult search for balance between freedom and security, as well as the relationship between cooperation and political will.
Among other topics, we will be discussing whether the promotion of human rights internally within the European Union has been accompanied by the protection of migrants’ rights externally.
Organized with the cooperation of the IEMed’s Aula Mediterrània and Casa Mediterráneo (the speaker will be giving one talk in Alicante and another in Barcelona), with collaboration by the Master’s degree program in Democracy and Government (UAM). Representing that Master’s degree program, the session will be presented by Irene Martín Cortés, Vice-Rector of Internationalization and a professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The debate will be moderated by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Casa Árabe’s Cultural Programs.
Neïla Dorra Jaibi is a professor of European Law and Migration Law at the University of Tunis and the director of the Migration and Asylum Legal Clinic. Her publications focus on security and mobility issues in EU migration policy, international law, constitutional law and migration.
