Tunisian law against racial discrimination: social context and legal norm

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/anqe.95971
Keywords: Racial discrimination, Tunisia, Racism, anti-racism movement, black minority

Abstract

Among the debates that took place in Tunisia after the Aran Spring, racism was one of the issues that emerged most strongly in the public space due to the vulnerability of the country's black population and the sociopolitical discrimination that they have been suffering for decades. This complex social reality has also fueled the emergence of an important anti-racism movement that has vindicated many social demands and policies in favor of the country’s black minority, including effective legislation against racism. This paper is based on the hypothesis that the civil society’s activism that is the most committed to racial discrimination has led to the adoption of the Organic Law 2018-50 regarding the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. An important text that, for the first time in the history of Tunisia, defines the notion of discrimination and establishes multiple criminal and preventive measures.

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Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, Universidad de Granada

University Professor. PhD in the area of Arab and Islamic Studies (Semitic Department, Granada University).  Director of thejournal Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Sección Árabe-Islam. University teaching post for 23 continuous years of service (since 1996) in formal education of bachelor’s degree (licenciatura/grado) and in postgraduate courses (PhD and master). I currently participate in three masters of Granada University. My research activity is developed within the Research Groupe, Contemporaneous Arab Studies (HUM-108) of Granada University (Research Group Coordinator). From a quantitative point of view, 119 publications of different nature have been produced in a 29-year continuous period (since 1990 to date), including 35 articles in scientific journals, 9 monographic books as author or as editor, 39 chapters of books, 13 informative articles and 21 reviews. This production is structured around four research areas: studies on women in the Maghreb; civil society and social movements in the Maghreb; peace and human rights in the Arab context; and legal changes in the Maghreb. Among other quality indexed journals, this scientific production has been published in: Estudios de Asia y África (Colegio de México), Studia Orientalia (Finnish Oriental Society, Finlandia), Espacios Públicos (Universidad Autónoma de México), Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (UAM), Feminismo/s (UVA), Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals (Barcelona), Anaquel de Estudios Árabes (UCM), Revista Jurídica (UAM), Foro. Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (UCM), Editorial Edinburgh University Press, Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Principal Investigator (IP) in two projects I+D+I: “Sociedad civil, derechos humanos y democracia en Marruecos” (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología); and “Sociedad civil y transición democrática en Marruecos: mujeres y derechos humanos” (Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional. I have participated as researcher in 9 projects I+D, two of them are still in force: “Narrativas del cambio social en el Norte de África” (UGR); and “Resiliencia del autoritarismo, choque de islamismos e intensificación del sectarismo en Oriente Medio y el Magreb” (UA). The last two scientific publications: “Ideología acción y reacción: la marcha islámica de Casablanca del 12 de marzo de 2000”. En L. Feliu, J.L. Mateo y F. Izquierdo (Eds.), Un siglo de movilización social en Marruecos, Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2019, pp.  343-362 (with J.A. Macías); "La ley tunecina sobre la eliminación de la violencia contra la mujer: la norma y el debate", Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, 25 (2018), pp. 32-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15366/reim2018.25.003.

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Published
2024-07-11
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Pérez Beltrán C. (2024). Tunisian law against racial discrimination: social context and legal norm. Anaquel de Estudios Árabes, 35(2), 247-258. https://doi.org/10.5209/anqe.95971
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Vol. 35 No. 2 (2024)
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