The increase in clandestine migrants to Italy following the 2010 Tunisian uprising has been an issue of popular and political concern in both countries. This article investigates Harga (2021, 2022), a top-rated and critically acclaimed drama series. Produced and aired by Tunisian national television as a vehicle of entertainment-education, Harga strove to make a geopolitical intervention in the process of irregular migration. Combining textual analysis with interviews conducted with the production’s producers and participants, the article explores how local and transnational actors came together to create a counternarrative to the popular success stories of clandestine migrants. This approach contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between media and socio-cultural and political dynamics as well as of their effect on formulating mediated narratives on clandestine migration. Due to Harga’s documentarist depiction of the social and political driving forces behind irregular migration and its open criticism of Tunisian authorities, the show is investigated within the framework of post-uprising Tunisia’s mediascape, and domestic and international political environment. In this regard, it offers a good case study for examining how local politics, transnationalism, and postcolonialism are intertwined in formulating discourses on irregular migration.

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欧洲不是你在电视上看到的那样！斋月戏剧作为突尼斯哈尔加的教育平台

2010 年突尼斯起义后，前往意大利的秘密移民数量增加，一直是两国民众和政治关注的问题。本文调查了一部广受好评的收视率最高电视剧《Harga》（2021、2022）。《哈尔加》由突尼斯国家电视台制作和播出，作为娱乐教育工具，力求对非正常移民过程进行地缘政治干预。本文将文本分析与对制作人和参与者的访谈相结合，探讨了本地和跨国演员如何联合起来，创造出一个与流行的秘密移民成功故事相反的故事。这种方法有助于更好地理解媒体与社会文化和政治动态之间的关系，以及它们对制定有关秘密移民的媒介叙事的影响。由于哈尔加对非正常移民背后的社会和政治驱动力的纪录片式描述以及对突尼斯当局的公开批评，该节目在突尼斯起义后的媒体景观以及国内和国际政治环境的框架内进行了调查。在这方面，它为考察地方政治、跨国主义和后殖民主义在制定非正常移民话语时如何交织在一起提供了一个很好的案例研究。