Most important interview I heard on Ceuta

 

Moroccan Dutch Professor on Migrants from Morocco crossing into Ceuta

Moroccan Dutch anthropologist Miriyam Aouragh working at Oxford and Westminister universities says the driving factors for the mass movement are a combination of shifting entry policies to Spain and increasing economic inequality in Morocco that "has given a sort of empowering incentive to people to try to go to Spain" via Ceuta, on Democracy Now:

Miriyam Aouragh is the daughter of Moroccan immigrants to Europe,

She says the driving factors for the mass movement are a combination of shifting entry policies to Spain and increasing economic inequality in Morocco that "has given a sort of empowering incentive to people to try to go to Spain" via Ceuta. 

Morocco's repression on youth and political voices are deeper reasons that rumours or accusations against US' President Trump and Israel...

Morocco still holds two colonial enclaves belonging to Spain, and has never severed all colonial ties, with France notably. But also the monarchy doesn't allow much freedom or civic space... add to that the deep poverty of the vsat majority versus the luxury of a small elite close to the king...

The city of Ceuta is indeed surrounded by the rest of Morocco along a five-mile-long border. It dates back to the Phoenician era and has been under Portuguese or Spanish control since 1415. 

The Moroccan government claims that Ceuta is occupied and colonised territory, while Spain considers it an integral part of the Spanish state.