The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants

by Michel Agier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509530614
• ISBN13: 9781509530618
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"