Saturday 18th of October
Transform Europe (Gußhausstraße 14, 1040)
6:30 pm: Küfa (community kitchen)
7:30 – 9/9:30 pm: Panel discussion
This panel brings together activists and journalists to discuss the EU’s expanding border regime and its entanglement with systems of labor exploitation targeting the Global Majority. We will shed light on how policies of border externalisation — from North Africa to the Balkans — are carried out through opaque agreements, corporate-state partnerships, and the growing influence of international organisations such as ICMPD and IOM.
Drawing on first-hand experience and investigative research, the speakers will explore the machinery of migration control: from Algeria’s strategic (non)cooperation with the EU, to Tunisia’s role in enforcing EU migration agendas, to the Balkans’ transformation into a laboratory for surveillance, containment, and deportations.
The discussion will connect local struggles for freedom of movement with global structures, examining how EU border policies fuel exploitative labor markets, reinforce racial hierarchies, and perpetuate post- and neocolonial power relations.
Speakers:
- Sofian Philip Naceur – Journalist (Tunis/London), reporting on Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, and border regimes in North Africa with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and various media outlets.
- Rayhan – Activist based in Tunisia, working for the rights of people on the move despite repression by the Tunisian regime.
- Nidžara Ahmetašević – Journalist and activist from Sarajevo, author of Repackaging Imperialism – The EU–IOM Border Regime in the Balkans.
The aim of this event is to create a space for collectively sharing strategies of resistance, transnational solidarity, and visions for dismantling the border industrial complex.
The panel will be held in English, if whisper translation to German or Arabic is needed, please send us an Email.