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This chapter is an introduction to the topic of youth unemployment in Tunisia. It explains the topical relevance of the issue and the difficult political framework conditions of job creation in the post-revolutionary context.
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A previous version of this research was published as a working paper under: Schäfer, Isabel (2017): Economic crisis and youth unemployment in Tunisia : a danger to the democratic transition process? In: Mühlberger, Wolfgang (ed.) (2017): Transformation in Tunisia : The First Five Years. EuroMeSCo Joint Policy Study, No. 5, Barcelona: IEMed, pp. 42–65.
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Three major terrorist attacks in 2015 and one in 2016, an estimated number of 5000 Tunisian foreign fighters in Syria, and hundreds of returned foreign fighters in Tunisia .
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Schaefer, I. (2018). Introduction. In: Political Revolt and Youth Unemployment in Tunisia. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65085-2_1
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