{"id":237666,"date":"2026-06-28T17:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-immigration-in-tunisia-tolerance-tempered-by-economic-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:34:56","slug":"tunisia-immigration-in-tunisia-tolerance-tempered-by-economic-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-immigration-in-tunisia-tolerance-tempered-by-economic-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Immigration in Tunisia: Tolerance Tempered By Economic Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Tunisians hold mixed views on free cross-border movement, want reduced immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tunisians express mixed views on freedom of movement across international borders: 51% say North Africans should be able to cross borders freely for work and trade, while 46% think their government should restrict such movement to protect its citizens.<\/li>\n<li>More than half (53%) say that in practice, crossing international borders is &#8220;difficult&#8221; or &#8220;very difficult.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Only 5% of respondents say they have&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisians hold mixed views on free cross-border movement, want reduced immigration. Key findings Tunisians express mixed views on freedom of movement across international borders: 51% say North Africans should be able to cross borders freely for work and trade, while 46% think their government should restrict such movement to protect its citizens. More than half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,3576,5140,9333,257,254,27133,11874,4703,653],"class_list":["post-237666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-fears","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tempered","tag-tolerance","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}