10-2016

Calais Jungle  closed


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The Jungle of Calais: is a refugee and migrant camp that existed from January 2015 to October 2016 near Calais, France. This particular shanty town attracted global media attention at the height of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015, when its population grew rapidly. Migrants live in the camps while trying to enter the UK or waiting for their asylum claims to be processed in France.

After the closure of the Calais camp, some migrants moved to a camp in Grande-Santé, but many fled to informal settlements in rural areas of northern France.

In la liniere camp there is a "steady stream" of refugees from Calais, Paris and elsewhere. In later years the population was mostly Kurdish, and inter-ethnic tensions eventually contributed to the burning of la liniere camp.

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The relationship between the English Channel and the Calais camp, and why a large number of immigrants would converge on the Calais and Dunkirk.


A teddy bear is one of few items remaining at the site of the Calais refugee camp that was demolished last week. Photo by Andy Hall for the Observer
A refugee stands in one of many encampments that have sprung up in the countryside around Calais and Dunkirk. Photo by Andy Hall for the Observer