Hassen Boubakri is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Migration Studies at the University of Sousse (US/ Tunisia). He is also a member of the « SYFACTE » Research Laboratory at the University of Sfax (USf)/Tunisia.

His research focuses on migration in the Mediterranean and North Africa in general in relation to its Southern (Subsaharan Africa) and Northern (European Union) neighborhoods, on many topics such as: Euro-Mediterranean Migration, Migration policies, return policies, Borders Control and management, irregular migration, Labour migration, Brain Drain, migration and development.

He is the PI (Principal Investigator), Supervisor & the Tunisian partner (Univ of Sousse) in many European research programs (Horizon Europe: 2023-2027), all of them having International Migration as topic.

1. « GAPS »: Return Migration « Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond » (https://www.returnmigration.eu),
2. ERC: « Vital Elements. Post-colonial flows: Forensics as an art of paying attention in a Mediterranean Port City” (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101055218).

3. Supervisor & Tunisian Partner of the Marie-Curie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network. University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona & University of Sousse & Others. https://www.upf.edu/web/euromedmig-phd-network;
4. Erasmus+ Partnership “SKILLBRIDGE: Skills Validation for Borderless Labor Integration into European Labour Markets”
5. He is member of the Academic Consortium of “La Nomad House” (a transnational itinerant cultural and theatre centre focused on Migration/Creative Europe): (https://www.lanomadhouse.com).

Finally, he is a partner of the “VilMouv: Cities on the Move in the Mediterranean”Program (CNRS & French School of Rome), and an “International Fellow” at the Convergences Migrations Institute (ICM/CNRS/France) and an associate researcher at the IRMC (Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain) and the Migrinter Laboratory (University of Poitiers).