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SUMMARY:FeRN Seminar Series: “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing m
 igration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town
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DESCRIPTION:Valentina Zagaria\nLeverhulme Research Fellow\nSocial Anthrop
 ology Department\, University of Manchester\n\nAbstract: Dignity (karama
 ) in Tunisia became politicised during the 2011 revolution through deman
 ds for systemic change that would allow citizens to reproduce valued liv
 es without feeling ‘socially dead’ or like they were simply surviving. I
 t did not\, however\, challenge pre-existing unequal household\, gender\
 , and generational relations. Nevertheless\, in the decade following 201
 1\, certain power lines did shift more in favour of women and the youth.
  In the coastal town of Zarzis\, for instance\, gender and family dynami
 cs were altered locally also following legal and technical changes to th
 e EU border regime. Yet pursuing a dignified life via the harga – the un
 authorised ‘burning’ of the border to Europe – folds into morally thorny
  questions and fears of change. The media\, politicians\, and the local 
 community blamed the persistence of the harga on young men desiring immo
 ral Western lifestyles\, on mothers selling their gold to subsidise sons
  on journeys that might lead to their deaths\, and on young women cravin
 g to marry a man with a visa and the capital that is assumed to flow fro
 m it. This paper asks what kinds of competing politics and societal visi
 ons are ‘engendered’ through the harga. What do the fears surrounding un
 authorised migration reveal about the transformations underway in this p
 ost-revolutionary context?
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:2.218\, University Place\, Manchester
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