A makeshift migrant camp on Spain’s abandoned Formula One circuit

Migrants, refugees and the homeless live without electricity or water where not long ago, million-dollar cars used to race.

Valencia, Spain – Less than a decade ago it was a massive playground for the wealthiest echelons of Valencia society in the heart of the city: a place for the elite to clink champagne glasses, watch million-dollar racing cars whizz past and inwardly congratulate themselves on forming part of a capitalist fairy-tale.

Now, though, it is a makeshift, ramshackle home for migrants, refugees and the destitute.

“I didn’t choose to live here,” Mohammed, a middle-aged Saharawi told Al Jazeera as he stood on the edge of a circle of huts made with walls of mattresses, plastic, wooden and metal poles in the centre of Valencia’s former Formula One circuit.