Across the long arc of colonial history, Spain's lower house has moved to restore what was once taken: citizenship for tens of thousands of Sahrawis born under Spanish rule, a people dispersed by the withdrawal of 1975 and the conflicts that followed. The vote — 168 in favor, 31 against — reflects both a reckoning with the past and a navigation of a present complicated by migration tensions and the enduring question of Western Sahara's sovereignty. That Morocco has not condemned the measure, despite strained relations with Madrid, suggests the human dimension of this gesture may transcend the