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This workshop inaugurates a network of early career social scientists researching the racial and gendered dynamics of migration and bordering in the Global South. It emerges in response to the ongoing situation of anti-black and anti-immigrant violence in Tunisia, precipitated by statements President Saied made calling for the deportation of sub-Saharan African migrants and stoking racial violence against them. As scholars of the region point out, racialized discourses regarding sub-Saharan migration are not new to Tunisia nor new to North Africa at large. Neither is this phenomenon confined to Euro-Africa. In the Americas, growing numbers of African migrants are exposed to racialized violence alongside their Caribbean and Central American counterparts. The workshop convenes scholars working in these and other Global South borderzones to form a network that is able to respond to such realities through our scholarship and in public activism.