Ceuta, Melilla, and the neighboring Moroccan territories can be imagined as testing grounds where different policies and acts of resistance, spectacles, and economies are assembled, configuring a borderland peculiar for the turbulence of contemporary migrations. Are these enclaves, European outpost in Africa, functioning as places of confinement and buffer zones, as theaters in which to stage the narrative of invasion? Exploring the internal logic of these borderlands is not a matter of looking only at the Great Wall, the most visible sign of the European fortress. It is worth observing the backstage, that is, the routes and informal camps in Morocco, shadow zones where policies against migration act without much regard for human rights. This article is inspired by a visual and filmic ethnography project, based on field encounters with several activists and volunteers (both in Morocco and in Ceuta–Melilla) who support the transit of migrants and asylum seekers.

休达、梅利利亚和邻近的摩洛哥领土可以被想象成试验场，不同的抵抗政策和行为、奇观和经济在这里汇集，构成了当代移民动荡所特有的边界地带。这些飞地，欧洲在非洲的前哨，是否作为禁闭和缓冲区的地方，作为上演入侵叙事的剧院？探索这些边陲的内在逻辑，并不是只看长城这个欧洲堡垒最显眼的标志。值得观察的后台，即摩洛哥的路线和非正式营地，这些阴影区的反移民政策并未过多考虑人权。这篇文章的灵感来自视觉和电影民族志项目，