09
Sep
Ceuta and the Politics of ‘Instrumentalised Migration’: How a Border Situation Became Part of Europe’s Wider Legal Battle to Restrict Access
[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics.] When around 80,000 people (according to the Spanish government) crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in early August, reactions quickly framed the event as a test of the EU’s border control and policy and the solidarity amongst its member states (for a...