Foreign Bodies: Gender and Clandestinity in Raja Amari's Corps étranger

Raja Amari's 2016 film Corps etranger complicates stereotypes of clandestine migration by blurring intergenerational, gender, and national borders. By telling the story of a young Tunisian migrant, Samia, who is shown as part of a larger discourse of trans-Mediterranean migration, the film engages with the current refugee crisis and comments on how post-revolution Tunisian migration to France is evolving. The film offers a new approach to interrogating gendered violence and stands in for the discourses that do not always take place in public spheres about the role that migration continues to play between the Maghreb and France.