International attention needs to be paid to Europe’s outsourcing of border controls, and to the relationship between Spain and Morocco.
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Migrant workers are vital to Spain’s vast agriculture sector, but they are often hidden from view.
Why is a European border located on African soil? And why has the dispute about Ceuta and Spanish colonization remained unresolved for so long?
The surge in irregular crossings at Ceuta has been seized on by the far right to criticise Spain’s liberal immigration policies.
The Ceuta crossing is just one part of the wider migration story in the Mediterranean.
In a knee-jerk reaction to the situation in Ceuta, 22 EU member states are seeking to step up border security. What are the legal loopholes and do stronger controls comply with the rule of law?
Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far more restrictionist in the past decade.
These cities occasionally sparks intense debates on undocumented migration to Spain, and hence to the EU.
In the absence of information, dramatic images are feeding misinformation – and shifting public opinion.
Tensions are mounting along the EU’s only land borders with Africa on the Moroccan coast.
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Scholar at Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University Belfast
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Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media, IE University
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Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Brunel University of London
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Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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PhD Researcher, European University Institute
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Researcher, European University Institute
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PhD candidate, Political Science, McGill University
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ICREA Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Hub for Global Social Medicine, University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley
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Postdoctoral Researcher, FOODCIRCUITS, Universitat de Barcelona
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Professor, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah