Last week, the world watched on as some 60,000 asylum seekers, spurred on by social media posts, swam across the border from Morocco to the Spanish city of Ceuta.
Closer to home, however, on the shores of northern France, looking out across the Channel to England, things look slightly different.
The crossings asylum seekers are making to Britain are just as perilous, the violence they are fleeing as extreme and the realities of life in migrant camps similarly brutal.
But where border crossings to Spain came in a dramatic, unprecedented surge, the presence of those looking for passage to the UK is evident
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