The jungle
Calais's Camps and migrants
- ISBN: 9781509530618
- Editorial: Polity Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2018
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 200
- Idiomas: Inglés
For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as 'the Jungle'. Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees. This is the first full account of life inside the Jungle.