Why is Tunisia’s leader stoking hatred against migrants?

Kais Saied is using refugees and opposition figures as scapegoats to distract from a struggling economy and his rolling power grab

Tunisia is in the grip of several overlapping crises. Its economy is struggling and its increasingly authoritarian president, Kais Saied, who has consolidated power since a constitutional coup in 2018, has launched a wide-ranging crackdown on his political opponents and undocumented migrants.