African Culture-Enrichers Break Through the Border Fence at Ceuta
1st September 2019
Ceuta is one of two Spanish enclaves (the other being Melilla) on the coast of North Africa, bordering on Morocco. Migrants from further south in Africa are particularly drawn to these enclaves, since they offer a land border with the EU, and obviate the dangerous sea journey across the Mediterranean. A culture-enricher who successfully breaches the border at Ceuta or Melilla gains access to the Schengen Zone, and can thereby hope to make his way to the Promised Land in Germany or Sweden.
Why Spain maintains these ‘enclaves’ has always puzzled me. It’s not as if they were like Gibraltar, strategic military locations.