The walls of Europe

The first barbed wire fencings were built around Ceuta and Melilla. Today, walls around European borders continue to increase: between Greece and Turkey, between Turkey and Bulgaria, in Hungary, in Poland, in Macedonia. The United Kingdom has started to build a wall on French territory, on the Calais harbour, to keep migrants from setting to sea illegally.

The crossings

Migrants entering Spain through Ceuta and Melilla over the past 12 years.

Source: Spanish Ministry of the Interior