CMENAS 2024 Fall Colloquium Series. Telling Migrants' Realities in a Hostile Political Context: Renewing the Discourse and its Forms

Humanitarian, academic and the media have often raised the question of both their and the public’s fatigue on migration issues. Yet, we are still sensing a continuing interest within the public and the media. Maybe our own fatigue rather hails from the fact we are heirs to a time when, on almost any great invisible cause, an op-ed by Jean-Paul Sartre could lead a government to take action or at least pretend to do so. Maybe our disillusion rather hails from the fact that particular op-ed form by intellectual figures has become far too common to make a difference. We can therefore try to renew the content, but also renew the form.

Since 2018, Jérôme Tubiana has been working as an operational adviser and advocacy manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), focusing on refugee and migration issues. Prior to this, Jérôme worked as a researcher specializing in conflicts and migration across the Sahara and Horn of Africa, In addition to various reports, he is the author of several books including Chroniques du Darfour (Glénat, 2010) and the award-winning graphic novel Guantánamo Kid (SelfMadeHero/Abrams, 2019). His articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The Baffler, Le Monde diplomatique and XXI.

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