ABSTRACT
In the wake of revolutionary events in Tunisia and Egypt, both academic and institutional milieus started to assess the impact that popular uprisings had or will have on the Euro-Mediterranean border regime. This Euro-Mediterranean migration regime is the result of converging legal frameworks and agreements between European governments, EU institutions and Northern African countries. Migration continued to be portrayed only as a threat to European security, stability and prosperity and thus politically addressed in terms of emergency. Migrant protests in Lampedusa were essentially about freedom of movement. They were raised first of all because of the inhuman living conditions, which produced claims of a dignified welcome. France has always been the favourite destination for most of the young Tunisians who left the country after the revolution. Tunisians who arrived in France were greeted by a strong-armed police presence at the railway stations in cities like Nice or Marseille.
