An Unsettling Déjà-vu: The May 2021 Ceuta Events
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[1] College of Europe
College of Europe
Arrondissement Brugge, Bélgica
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- Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 7, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 79-85
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
To properly understand the various factors that have been conducive to diplomatic tensions between Spain and Morocco, following the mass arrival of migrants crossing the border of the Ceuta enclave in May 2021, we need to move the debate beyond the recurrent reference to “blackmail”. The instrumentalization of migration for political and diplomatic purposes is not uncommon in the history of international relations. Nor is it new in the governance of migration. This Insight argues that the May 2021 events are symptomatic of a now consolidated community of interests between Morocco, on the one hand, and the EU and its Member States, on the other, that has gradually affected their relations, across various issue-areas, for better and for worse.
