Ceuta

A woman porter in Ceuta wears colorful straw hat and leopard print jacket

Morocco’s ‘mule women’ risk their lives hauling goods across the border from Spain

Borders

After several female porters were trampled to death in Ceuta, Spain, private merchants took measures to improve working conditions. But is it enough?

an african migrant scales a razor-wire topped fence in Ceuta, Spain

The razor wire that separates Europe from Africa might be coming down

Immigration
Moroccan women wait at a border crossing with loads of 100-200 pounds of commercial goods on their backs.

Along Morocco’s border with a Spanish enclave, these women shoulder twice their weight ‘to earn a morsel of bread’

Economics