"Qui e lì sono la stessa cosa": l'altra rivoluzione dei migranti tunisini

This article deploys an oblique gaze on Arab Springs’ migrations and particularly post Tunisian Revolution’s migrations. This approach, which takes mainstream narratives as its foil, allows to account these migrations’ “there” and “here,” connecting the particular spatial takeover enacted by the uprisings with the spatial takeover that Tunisian migrants practiced right after the fall of the regime. It is argued that by “acting the closeness” of the two Mediterranean Rims, migrants shook the logic of migration policies and produced a shift in the spatial logic through which these very policies had been designing the space between Europe and Africa for over a decade and the logic of legitimizing narrations these policies have been building on.