Migrants walk towards the border on their return to Morocco escorted by Spanish infantry soldiers, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, northern Africa, on Aug. 2, 2026. (Credit: Henry Nicholls/AFP)
It is with a heavy heart that we witness the unheard of, extraordinary, and unprecedented images of some sixty thousand Moroccans crossing the border separating their country from the Spanish coastal enclave city of Ceuta, and risking their lives in the process — several dozen died during attempting the journey on July 30 and 31, 2026.It does not come as a surprise: what the self-imposed, widespread exile of Moroccan youth reveals to the world did not begin yesterday.Nor is it the European panic at seeing a flood of Moroccans — imbued with the hope for a desired yet unknown dignified life — that demands urgent questioning without leniency of our collective dead ends. Europeans should be reminded that one of the historical conditions of their own economic rise was indeed emigration — throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — by substantial...
It is with a heavy heart that we witness the unheard of, extraordinary, and unprecedented images of some sixty thousand Moroccans crossing the border separating their country from the Spanish coastal enclave city of Ceuta, and risking their lives in the process — several dozen died during attempting the journey on July 30 and 31, 2026.It does not come as a surprise: what the self-imposed, widespread exile of Moroccan youth reveals to the world did not begin yesterday.Nor is it the European panic at seeing a flood of Moroccans — imbued with the hope for a desired yet unknown dignified life — that demands urgent questioning without leniency of our collective dead ends. Europeans should be reminded that one of the historical conditions of their own economic rise was indeed emigration — throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — by...
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