The popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa 2010/2011 were a critical juncture not only for societies and politics in the region but also for intraregional and transregional migration flows. Notably, the early days of the so-called “Arab Spring” were characterized by the return of formerly exiled opposition players as well as second-generation emigrants for whom the protest-driven regimes changes and the fall of dictators like Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Muammar al-Ghaddafi in Libya and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen signaled an opportunity to return home and personally contribute to the new post-autocratic societies. But as protest gave way to counter-revolution and civil war, this trend was soon reversed by the exodus of many protagonists of the revolutions and the displacement of large numbers of refugees. In this context, Arab migrants have often been portrayed as the passive victims of geostrategic power dynamics and the machinations of autocratic regimes.

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书评：国外的阿拉伯之春：反对独裁政权的侨民激进主义，达纳·莫斯（Dana M. Moss）

2010/2011 年中东和北非的民众起义不仅是该地区社会和政治的关键时刻，也是区域内和跨区域移民流动的关键时刻。值得注意的是，所谓的“阿拉伯之春”初期的特点是以前流亡的反对派球员以及第二代移民的回归，抗议驱动的政权改变了他们，以及像 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 这样的独裁者的倒台在突尼斯，埃及的胡斯尼·穆巴拉克、利比亚的穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲和也门的阿里·阿卜杜拉·萨利赫都标志着一个回家的机会，并亲自为新的后专制社会做出贡献。但随着抗议让位于反革命和内战，这一趋势很快被许多革命主角的外流和大量难民的流离失所所扭转。在这种情况下，阿拉伯移民经常被描绘成地缘战略权力动态和专制政权阴谋的被动受害者。