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The article aims to analyze the EU's border externalization in relation to anti-Blackness and its effects on Black migrants.

April 24, 2026Open Access

Externalizing Anti-Blackness

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The article aims to analyze the EU's border externalization in relation to anti-Blackness and its effects on Black migrants.
Utilized feminist, embodied ethnography to examine the experiences of Black migrants in Tunisia
Documented various forms of violence, including expulsions and bureaucratic immobilization
Investigated practices of care and solidarity among migrants as forms of resistance
Identifies externalization as a key mechanism of racial domination against Black migrants
Highlights the role of care and documentation in contesting racism and legitimizing migrant experiences
Demonstrates how migrants create counter-archives to make violence visible

Abstract

This article examines the EU’s border externalization in Tunisia as a racialized project of governance rooted in longer genealogies of anti-Blackness and exclusion. Drawing on feminist, embodied ethnography, it traces how fast and slow violence—expulsions, bureaucratic immobilization, and everyday racism—govern and devalue Black migrant life. Yet through practices of care, documentation, and solidarity, migrants produce counter-archives that make this violence legible and contest its legitimacy. The article reveals externalization as a mechanism of racial domination and a terrain of political presence.

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