Miner, Emilien

Emilien Miner is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow within the EuroMedMig Doctoral Network, and the coordinator of the GRITIM's Research Lab. He holds an MA in Human Rights and Democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights and an MA in Migration Studies from Pompeu Fabra University. He has five years of experience in Tunisia working on human rights, gender, civil society and migration issues, both with grassroot NGOs and with the European Union. His areas of expertise include European migration policies, international migration governance, civil society, and externalisation policies in North Africa. His current research examines the impact of the European Union’s externalization of migration policies on state structures, civil society, and migration dynamics in Tunisia.

Thesis working title: “Civil Society and Migration Patterns: How the European Realpolitik of Border Externalization is changing the game. The case of Tunisia”

Keywords: European Union; North Africa; Migration; Civil Society; Authoritarianism;

Supervisor: Lorenzo Gabrielli, Pompeu Fabra University