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books and special issues
peer-reviewed articles & book chapters
2025. with Lea Müller-Funk. Maghreb States in the International Refugee Regime: Between Strategic Alignment, Alternative Pathways, and Confrontations . In: Fakhoury, Tamirace and Dawn Chatty (eds.) Refugee Governance in the Arab World , London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2024. with Natalie Welfens. Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies , International Migration Review 58 (4), 1669-1700.
2024. The il/liberal paradox: Conceptualizing immigration policy trade-offs across the democracy/autocracy divide , Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50 (3), 680–701.
2024. with Sylvia I Bergh, Issam Cherrat, Francesco Colin and Ben Wagner. Morocco’s Governance of Cities and Borders. In: Rita Matulionyte and Monika Zalnieriute (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 267-284.
2024. with Lea Müller-Funk. Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization. Mediterranean Politics 29(5): 617-641.
2023. with Nora Stel and Kelsey Norman. Strategic non-regulation as migration governance. Migration Politics 2(4).
2023. with Lea Müller-Funk. (Trans)formations de l’État et gouvernance des migrations forcées en Tunisie , Afrique(s) en mouvement 6(2): 31-41.
2023. Ad-hocratic immigration governance: how states secure their power over immigration through intentional ambiguity . Territory, Politics and Governance . 11(4): 677-694.
2022. Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus . Third World Quarterly 43(7): 1551-1569.
2021. Beyond the dichotomy of liberal and illiberal migration governance . In: Carmel, Emma; Lenner, Katharina and Regine Paul (eds.) Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Migration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Pp.110-122.
2021. Crafting a ‘liberal monarchy’: Regime consolidation and immigration policy reform in Morocco . Journal of North African Studies 26(5): 850-874.
2020. with Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas. Political party ideology and immigration policy reform: An empirical enquiry , Political Research Exchange 2(1): 1-27.
2020. Immigration. In: Caliendo, Stephen M. and Charlton D. McIlwain (eds) The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity nd edition. London, UK: Routledge. Pp 60-67.
2019. with Hein de Haas, Mathias Czaika, Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Edo Mahendra,Simona Vezzoli and Maria Villares-Varela. International Migration: Trends, determinants and policy effects , Population and Development Review . 45(4): 885-922.
2018. Rethinking Immigration Policy Theory Beyond ‘Western Liberal Democracies’ Comparative Migration Studies 6:4 .
2018. with Hein de Haas and Simona Vezzoli. Growing restrictiveness or changing selection? The nature and evolution of migration policies , International Migration Review 52(2): 324-367.
2015. with Hein de Haas and Simona Vezzoli. Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change , Comparative Migration Studies 3(15).
2015. with Raluca Bejan. Salient issues on international migration: Buoni e cattivi segnali. Reporting from the 2014 International Metropolis Conference , Transnational Social Review 5(1): 86-91.
2014. The Formation of Morocco’s policy towards irregular migration (2000–2007): Political rationale and policy processes , International Migration 52(5): 15-28.
working papers
features, policy reports, book reviews & blogposts
2025. Immigration Policy, a “Biomarker” for Political Regime Transformation? APSA Democracy & Autocracy Newsletter 23(1): 8-12
2023. Reinventing a Broken Wheel: What the EU-Tunisia Deal Reveals over Europe’s Migration Cooperation . Verfassungsblog.
2023. Authoritarianism and immigration policy: Tunisia shows it’s not that straightforward . The Loop – ECPR’s Political Science Blog.
2022. Commentary: Tunisia’s migration policy: the ambiguous consequences of democratization . Tunis, Tunisia: Heinrich Böll Foundation. Also available in French .
2021. Book Review: Dini and Guisa (2020) Externalising Migration Governance Through Civil Society , International Migration 59(2): 269-271.
2020. Policy Brief: Key knowledge questions on migration drivers , CrossMigration Project . IMISCOE: Migration Research Hub.
2020. ‘Maghreb – Migration Patterns and Policies between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS). Available in German and English .
2020. Migration Trends Across the Mediterranean , Africa and The Global Illicit Economy Podcast , 17 December.
2020. Autocrats, democrats and immigration policy , The Borders of Equality Podcast , 8 June
2019. Book Review: Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change , International Migration Review .
2018. with Hein de Haas. There’s No Hard Right–Soft Left Divide on Migration Policy , News Deeply , 25 July.
2016. Mehr als nur Herkunftsländer – Migrationsmuster in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien. Studie des Referats Naher und Mittlerer Osten/Nordafrika . Berlin, DE: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Available in German and French .
2016. There is no ‘silver bullet’ migration policy , Hein de Haas Blog , 16 December.
2016. Migrationspolitik: Keine eierlegende Wollmilchsau . Der Standard, 25 August.
2015. Revolution and political transition in Tunisia: A migration game changer? , Migration Information Source Country Profile. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute.
2015. Almost home? Morocco’s incomplete migration reforms , World Politics Review, 5 May 2015.
2014. with Mathias Czaika, Sally Khallash and Maria Villares-Varela. Increasing Economic and Trade Relations with Emerging Economies – Consequences for Immigration Systems. A Comparative Analysis of Migration Policy Options towards BRIC-Plus Countries, 178p.
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