Yazid Benhadda

Les premiers exemplaires de l'Atlas du Maghreb sont arrivés, et ils sont bien sûr magnifiques !
Disponible le 4 février dans toutes les bonnes librairies !

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order

How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates.

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This historicising exercise is at the core of my research programme which I will be continue working on during my upcoming 8-months fellowship at MECAM - University of Tunis. mecam.tn/yazid-benhad...

Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i

This paper is a continuation of my paper published earlier this summer in IPS. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Both papers share the same aim: historicising contemporary migration governance by empirically tracing its practices back to colonial times.

It sheds light on how the French colonial administration in Morocco governed this phenomenon by taking a punitive approach towards this practice. This echoes the punitive logic by which the EU continues to deal with the phenomenon in our times.

Rooting lhrig: Burning borders in colonial Morocco (1919–1955) Abstract. Lhrig is a Maghrebi term for the act of migrating and crossing international borders ‘illegally’ using various strategies. This is largely believ

New publication 🚨
This paper explores how Moroccan colonial migrants challenged the passport regime imposed by the French colonial administration - similarly to how many Moroccans and North Africans continue to do so today. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.

Thank you, Alex!!

Shukran Kevork!

Thanks Catherine!!

@cais-exeter.bsky.social, @sfb138.bsky.social, @exeterspspa.bsky.social

Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
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(WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between. Yazid Benhadda. Irene Fernandez-Molina.

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣

✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between

Call for abstracts for our @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS25 workshop on 'The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between' (Krakow, 2-4 July)

Convened by @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social and myself

👉 eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

Submission deadline: 11 February

Been looking forward to this! Very excited to continue working on security, the colonial, and North Africa during my time in Marburg!