A former government official indicated that regular migration is just as dangerous as irregular migration as more and more talents choose to leave their country of origin. Around 4,000 engineers and 3,000 doctors left Tunisia between 2015 and 2022. These departures have a significant impact on the training of new skills and cause significant shortcomings in the services offered to citizens, he said.
The former official criticized the absence of any clear policy to remedy the departure of skills in the face of an increasing demand from the European Union (EU), which constantly calls on skills and young talents from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
The President of the Tunis Centre for Migration and Asylum stated that the phenomenon of immigration is explained by “the growing income gap between the two shores and the lack of development plans in the southern countries.”
Regarding irregular immigration in Tunisia, the expert stressed that it has become “a societal and family project,” recalling that the profile of irregular migrants has largely changed since “families, minor children as well as women now choose to leave this way.” He said that in the first nine months of this year, 2,200 minor migrants arrived on European soil, compared to around one hundred in previous years.
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