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  • Ceuta and Melilla: externalised border control, systematic violence

    Ceuta and Melilla: externalised border control, systematic violence

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    Esther Hurst
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    CN: this article contains discussion of xenophobia and violence OPINION Between 17 and 19 May 2021, some 10 000 migrants crossed the border into Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Morocco had relaxed its border controls in Ceuta in retaliation against Spain’s decision to allow Brahim Gali, a leader of the Polisario Front – a militant organisation opposed…