2 Article(s) by:

Nabil Ferdaoussi

Nabil Ferdaoussi is a doctoral research fellow at HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town. He is an associate researcher at the Center for Global Studies at International University of Rabat.

Ceuta seen across the Strait of Gibraltar, with the city's hillside skyline and waterfront beneath a clear blue sky as a seagull flies overhead.

A border spectacle

When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial history behind it.

Climate as border

Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.