Migration studies, 2022. Studying flows across the Mediterranean — how people move, how borders function, how policy shapes both.
Mediterranean Migration Studies
The School for International Training programme that took me to Tunis also included a three-week study of migration flows in Sicily. Palermo belongs to the same Mediterranean frame that shaped my field research on rights, borders, and political change.
The Sicily component focused on how people move across the Mediterranean, how states and institutions respond to that movement, and how policy choices become lived realities at the edge of Europe. That work sits in direct conversation with the broader research question I keep returning to: the distance between institutional language and human experience.
Why Palermo Matters
Palermo represents a concrete vantage point on migration governance. Seen alongside Tunis, it sharpened the comparative lens I carry through the rest of my work — the habit of examining how the same structural questions look different once they pass through another legal system, political culture, or border regime.
Coursework on immigration, democratic transition, and the politics of religious identity in the Mediterranean, including a three-week study of migration flows in Sicily. Conducted independent field research under the supervision of Dr. Raja Boussedra, collecting firsthand accounts from women in suburban Tunis about the impact of Political Islam and Salafism on their rights following the 2011 Jasmine Revolution. Literature review and data collection conducted in English and French.