Students from the first year of the master in Migration Studies had the occasion to experience a co-teaching session with professor Hassen Boubakri, Professor of Geography at the University of Sousse and President of the Tunis Center for Migration and Asylum (CeTuMA) and Alice Argento, a lawyer specialized in migration law working for Cledu – Clinica Legale per i Diritti Umani, an association based at the University of Palermo, Department of Law, whoch is partner of Migrants Project.

They have lead together a co-teaching session during the class about “EU: Externalization and Securitization Policies”, which tackles the different modes of border control and migrant flow management in North Africa and its European and Sub-Saharan neighborhoods.

Another lawyer from CLEDU, Laura Bondì, have conducted a co-teaching session with professor Salim Ben Sassi, from University of Tunis about “Migration Policies and Governance”. Students from first year discussed about the history of migration and the debates about migration which have returned over and over to a consistent set of themes and have often been as heated and as strident as they are today.