Children in a strange land: the plight of the 1,000 minor migrants still in Spain’s Ceuta

Spain is confronting deep European Union divisions following a mass influx of migrants into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. While most migrants who crossed the frontier have returned to Morocco and bodies have been recovered from local waters, approximately 1,000 minor migrants remain stranded in the territory.

Spain's interior minister recently engaged in tense video discussions with hawkish EU counterparts to address the crisis. The unprecedented surge of tens of thousands of people into the enclave has laid bare the broader policy fault lines and strategic disagreements within the European bloc regarding migration management.