The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants

ISBN-13: 9781509530618 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

Spis treści

Illustrations viiIntroduction for a better understanding 1A longer history of the Jungle 2Europe and the migration question 4Calais as metonym for European crisis ... and solidarity 71 Movement to and fro the Calais region from 1986 to 2016 141986-1997 the indifference of the French authorities 151997-1999 a growing attention 161999-2000 the Sangatte moment 182002 British control at the port of Calais 20The long years of eviction 212009 'The closing of the Calais Jungle' a new media sequence 24The network of voluntary organizations 27A brief ray of light 30The rise of the far right 33September 2014 onward concentrate, disperse, control 372 From Sangatte to Calais inhabiting the 'Jungles' 46Sangatte, 1999-2002 46March 2015 Jungles, camps, squats 49April 2015 to October 2016 the Jungle or 'the art of building towns' 603 A sociology of the Jungle everyday life in a precarious space 76Society under precarious conditions 76Settling in the shantytown 81Economic and social life 84Making a community 914 A Jungle of solidarities 94Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities 94The situation in other encampments 103Mobilization networks from local to national 1095 Destruction, dispersal, returns 116'The biggest shantytown in Europe' 116The sheltering operation as spectacle 122Dispersal 126After the demolition returns and rejections 130Conclusion the Calais event 134The camp as hypertrophy of the border 135Cosmopolitics of the Jungle 138Postscript how this book was written 144The authors 145Notes 149Index 158

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.