The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants

ISBN-13: 9781509530601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Michel Agier

Opis

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.

Recenzje

In this detailed depiction of life in the Jungle , Michel Agier and colleagues offer a powerful, poetic argument about the power and value of place. Taking seriously the lives of those in the camp, this work is a much–needed recognition of their experience and acknowledgement of their humanity.
Michael Collyer, University of Sussex

In this work, Michel Agier brings his formidable intellect to bear on how we should understand the Calais Jungle . The result is a notable contribution to contemporary discussions of mobility, solidarity, precarity and, most importantly, how we think about Europe itself.
Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford

An outstanding historical, sociological and political analysis of the Calais camp. This book is a major contribution that will inform broader debates on refugees and migration."
Marie–Laurence Flahaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and University of Oxford

Spis treści

List of illustrations Introduction: For a better understanding A longer history of the Jungle Europe and the migration question Calais as metonym for European crisisÉ and solidarity Chapter 1. Movement To and Fro: The Calais Region from 1986 to 2016 1986 1997: the indifference of the French authorities 1997 999: a growing attention 1999 2000: the Sangatte moment 2002: British control at the port of Calais The long years of eviction 2009 the closing of the Calais jungle  : a new media sequence The network of voluntary organizations A brief ray of light The rise of the far right September 2014 onward: concentrate, disperse, control Chapter 2. From Sangatte to Calais: inhabiting the Jungles Sangatte, 1999–2002 March 2015: Jungles, camps, squats April 2015 to October 2016: The Jungle or The Art of Building Towns Chapter 3. A Sociology of the Jungle: Everyday Life in a Precarious Space Society under precarious conditions Settling in the shantytown Economic and social life Making a community Chapter 4. A Jungle of Solidarities Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities The situation in other encampments Mobilization networks: from local to national Chapter 5. Destruction, Dispersal, Returns The biggest shantytown in Europe The sheltering operation as spectacle Dispersal After the demolition: returns and rejections Conclusion: The Calais Event The camp as hypertrophy of the border Cosmopolitics of the Jungle Postscript: How this Book was Written The Authors Notes Index

O autorze

Michel Agier is Senior Researcher at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. He is a leading authority on migration and refugees and his previous books in English include Borderlands, Managing the Undesirables and On the Margins of the World.

Translated by  David Fernbach.