2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said Ceuta and Melilla must prepare for migration as a permanent ‘structural reality’, more than a month after July’s mass invasion, which saw more than 80,000 illegal migrants storm the Spanish enclave, thousands of whom…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (111+ words) This article was originally published in Vol. 6 No. 2 of our print edition. ‘Migration is being used as a weapon’ Türkiye: The Deal and Its Discontents ‘Europe has no policy for dealing with state-driven migration as a form of hybrid pressure…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (212+ words) A group of illegal migrants threw bottles filled with a chemical solvent at Ceuta residents protesting against their continued presence in the Spanish enclave since the mass invasion of around 80,000 people from Morocco at the end of July. The attack…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (421+ words) Supporters of Sanchismo call it progress; however, it more closely resembles ideological engineering: the deliberate use of state power to reshape assumptions about life, family, sex and identity that were embedded in Spanish society long before Pedro Sánchez arrived at…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (202+ words) Hundreds of Ceuta residents blocked Red Cross vehicles carrying food to illegal migrants on Thursday, 27 August, before pushing through police lines, dismantling makeshift settlements and setting migrant encampments on fire, as anger over the thousands who remain in the Spanish…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (280+ words) Ceuta residents had enough of the Spanish government’s inability to solve the deteriorating security crisis caused by the thousands of illegal migrants still in the enclave after the mass invasion of more than 80,000 from Morocco at the end of July....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (475+ words) Violent clashes erupted between illegal migrants and Spanish riot police in Ceuta on Tuesday evening as thousands gathered for a daily Red Cross food distribution, adding another flashpoint to the mounting disorder gripping the Spanish enclave nearly a month after…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (320+ words) This article was originally published in Vol. 6 No. 2 of our print edition. ‘It does not matter how high you build a castle’s walls if a backdoor is left open’ In order to halt irregular migration flows from Serbia, a significant…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) Between 100 and 200 mainly Moroccan illegal migrants have begun a hunger strike at the sprawling Trampolín beach settlement in Ceuta, demanding asylum in Spain and opposing their return to Morocco after last month’s mass illegal invasion. The protest began on Sunday,…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (770+ words) ‘From the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future action.’ In the past two weeks, countless interpretations of the underlying causes of the Ceuta crisis have appeared across newspapers, online outlets and social media. As with almost every…...