Amid widespread post-pandemic food shortages and inflation worsened by the Ukraine conflict, the Maghreb region is facing multiple crisis, political turmoil and critical socio-economic consequences. This has not only led to migration in unprecedented numbers, but also made the conditions faced by the thousands of migrants and refugees currently stranded in the North African countries even more vulnerable with no prospect of introducing any changes to the conditions.

This panel will discuss the current situation in the Maghreb in the realm of European border management policy.

>> About the panelists

Adnen El Ghali

Adnen el Ghali is an architect, urban planner, graduate in political science, and holder of a PhD in history. As a consultant in territorial and urban studies, he works as a territorial and urban studies consultant. His research focuses on urban governance, territorial attractiveness, and tangible and intangible heritage.

Ahlam Chemlali

Ahlam Chemlali is a Doctoral Fellow at Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), researching the intersections of migration, borders, violence and smuggling through a gendered lens in the North African Borderlands. Over 10 years professional experience in project and research management from the UN and NGO-sector within the fields of research, human rights and development. Conducted +70 field missions in fragile and conflict-affected parts of the world, across Sub-Saharan Africa, the MENA region and South Asia.

Kheira Arrouche

Kheira Arrouche is a Doctoral researcher at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). Her ethnographic research project investigates the (im)mobility trajectories of West and Central African migrants in the context of Algeria. She looks into the intersection of irregularity, race, and gender. Her research interests are particularly in mobility processes, migration facilitation, irregular migration, and migration governance.

Nabil Ferdaoussi

Nabil Ferdaoussi is a Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). His doctoral project examines the politics of managing border death and disappearances of migrants at the EU-Moroccan Borders.