When a group of young Tunisian men from Redeyef found themselves stuck in the temporary migrant detention center of southern Italy’s island, Lampedusa, in October 2017, “in very difficult humanitarian conditions” and threatened with being expelled back to Tunisia, they announced with a public letter that they were going on hunger strike “against deportations and for the freedom of movement,” asking for international support.1 In this letter they explicitly connected their choice to migrate north to political and economic failures at the national and international level. As a result of this failure, they concluded, “We’ve had to abandon our dream of 2008 of a democratic state guaranteeing freedom, dignity, and social justice.” The men who wrote that letter were in fact some of the protagonists of the 2008 uprising in the mining region of Tunisia, which former Tunisian dictator Ben Ali violently repressed, with the Army besieging the city of Redeyef for over six months and arresting and torturing many local protesters. Writing this international call, spread by the Tunisian Forum pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux (FTDES), these young migrants asked to be released and to move freely, calling an international audience to express solidarity with them. Also in 2017, 6,151 Tunisian nationals left their country by crossing the sea. This stark rise in relation to previous years is connected to the deterioration of the already critical socioeconomic situation, with the devaluation of the Tunisian currency by more than 25% and the inflation of basic commodities prices (FTDES 2017). In addition, as Torelli (2017) explains, “the fishing industry, especially in the area of Kerkennah (whose el-Attaya port is a key departure point for migrants), was hit by an invasion of a particularly

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“我们的梦想和你们没有什么不同”

2017 年 10 月，当一群来自 Redeyef 的突尼斯青年发现自己被困在意大利南部兰佩杜萨岛的临时移民拘留中心，“处于非常困难的人道主义条件”并面临被驱逐回突尼斯的威胁时，他们向公众宣布信中说，他们正在绝食抗议，“反对驱逐出境并争取行动自由”，请求国际支持。1 在这封信中，他们明确地将他们向北迁移的选择与国家和国际层面的政治和经济失败联系起来。由于这次失败，他们总结道：“我们不得不放弃 2008 年的梦想，即建立一个保障自由、尊严和社会正义的民主国家。” 写那封信的人实际上是 2008 年突尼斯矿区起义的一些主角，突尼斯前独裁者本·阿里对其进行了暴力镇压，军队围困了雷德耶夫市六个多月，并逮捕和折磨了许多当地抗议者。写下这个由突尼斯经济与社会论坛 (FTDES) 传播的国际呼吁，这些年轻移民要求获释并自由行动，呼吁国际观众表达对他们的声援。同样在 2017 年，6,151 名突尼斯国民跨海离开了他们的国家。与前几年相比，这种急剧上涨与本已危急的社会经济形势恶化有关，突尼斯货币贬值超过 25%，基本商品价格上涨（FTDES 2017）。此外，正如 Torelli (2017) 解释的那样，“渔业、