Ceuta migrant crisis: Far-right govts 'ridiculously using these images' to stoke fear for votes

France 24 features analysis from Antoni Vives, a policy analyst and former Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, on the Ceuta migration crisis. Rather than viewing the crossings solely as a humanitarian emergency, Vives frames the situation within a broader context—colonial history, economic inequality, Morocco-Algeria regional competition, and migration as an instrument of statecraft. While he acknowledges that young Moroccans do pursue economic opportunity, Vives contends that the scale and timing of the crossings reflect deliberate geopolitical signaling by Morocco toward Spain.

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