In Ceuta, migrants are turning back towards Morocco after a few days of wandering.

After crossing the border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, migrants return to Morocco in small groups, exhausted, having spent two or three days in the streets with almost nothing to eat.

For many migrants, crossing into Ceuta leads nowhere. After crossing the border from Morocco, they find themselves wandering the streets of the Spanish enclave, without resources or prospects, before turning back.

This discreet and repeated return movement takes place in small groups. Two or three days are enough for hope to give way to exhaustion. The migrants then return to Moroccan territory in the same destitution as when they arrived.

This situation illustrates the predicament faced by thousands of people attempting to reach Europe via this land border between Africa and Spain, one of the few remaining on the continent. Ceuta, a Spanish territory enclaved on the northern coast of Morocco, is a particularly heavily guarded crossing point, where regularization options remain extremely limited for those who manage to enter.