“…As Amazian (2021) stated, the racialisation of the threat and the fear was palpable in the 'war against terror'. 10 More recently, the social alarm has moved towards the unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, most of them coming from Marrakesh (42%), Mali (17.4%), Algeria (16.6%) and Senegal (13.3%) (Fiscsalía General del Estado, 2021), that are seen as a threat in some political and media discourses, generating social alarm, suspicion and rejection 11 (García España & Carvalho da Silva, 2019;García España et al, 2021). In general, the African descendent population is linked to crime by media in Spain (Cea d'Ancona & Valles Martínez, 2021) and they are frequently stopped by the police (APDHA & IPAZ-UGR, 2016; García Añon et al, 2013;López Riba, 2021).…”