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Calais Again is a digital story recounting a young man, Anas' experience of returning to France for the first time after migrating to the United Kingdom as a separated asylum-seeking child. Produced using biographical narrative and participatory arts-based research approaches, Calais Again was created as a rare self-authored contribution to Anas' personal archive of migration documents, and as a resource for communicating the multiple and multi-layered journeys of asylum-seeking young people. In the context of COVID-19, the story additionally highlights how the pandemic is just one of many forces of ontological insecurity and constrained mobility in the lives of young forced migrants. While the project was commenced pre-pandemic, the editing and launch of the digital story took place remotely, presenting ethical, methodological and relational challenges, but also unanticipated affordances. In particular, the spectrum of options for differentiated presence enabled by online events – from anonymous observation to co-presentation – offers unique opportunities for navigating safeguarding and agency for youth researchers.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais "Jungle" – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand 'crisis', activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.

This article focuses on the relationship between the definitions of home and the contemporary figure of the migrant. The specific context is the politics of representation that has developed around the so-called Jungle in Calais, the unofficial refugee camp that the French State has regularly attempted to dismantle for years. In the aftermath of one particularly spectacular operation, this study asks what it means for the media to have reported on the end of the Jungle in October 2016. It explores the origin of the word 'Jungle' and its strategic uses by various social actors who either oppose or embrace the label. Depending on whether they can successfully describe the Jungle as a home or insist that it cannot be one, migrants, volunteers, journalists, sociologists, lawyers, and politicians are able to justify the decisions they make. Depending on which concepts or metaphors of home they invoke, social actors can defend radically different agendas such as the destruction of tents and caravans, the distribution of food and clothes, or the building of an unofficial shop. An analysis of the instrumentalisation of the concept of home shows which political or ethical agendas are better served by the deployment of radically different conceptions of the word.

AbstractThis article examines two recent refugee crises in Calais: the debate around the Sangatte refugee camp, which was resolved in 2002, and the ongoing problems in Calais, which have been escalating since autumn 2014. It asks: why are these events repeating? What, if anything, has changed between 2002 and now? It points to a number of new developments since 2002, such as growing numbers of migrants worldwide, and a changing European political and legal landscape. But it also argues that a number of the same factors that led to the Sangatte crisis are still shaping events and responses in Calais today. They concern the persistent shortcomings of European states' immigration controls, the failures to reach Europe‐wide and international agreements on migration, and the inadequacies of international bodies such as the UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention which it upholds.

Calais and its Border Politics- Front Cover -- Calais and its Border Politics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Calais in constant crossroads -- Introduction -- Contemporary refugee crisis: Calais and its significance -- Calais and its situated geography -- Calais and the transient -- About this book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The camp and the 'Jungle' -- Introduction -- The Western social imaginary of the jungle -- Camp as transient life -- Locating the Jungle as a camp -- Space, movement and 'camp thinking' -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Turning the refugee into the unwanted migrant -- Introduction -- Britain, Europe, and incoherent responses to refugee crises -- Turning the refugee into the migrant -- From Sangatte to the Jungles -- Britain's legislative retreat from humanitarianism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The visualizing of Calais -- Introduction -- The context of irregular migration into Europe -- Analysis of the images in the newspaper coverage -- Spectacle of demolition, violence, and brutality -- The physical site of the camp -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: The 'lone child' in Calais: from invisibility to the Dubs Amendment -- Introduction -- The invisible children in Calais -- Contextualizing the contemporary crisis in Calais and Britain -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Calais and the politics of erasure: demolition, flight and return -- Introduction -- The hard line of the French in 2016 -- The politics of immigration in the UK -- 'Progressive dismantling' of Jungle 2 (2016) -- The making, remaking and unmaking of the camps over 18 years -- Restoring law and order: 'the barbarians are at the gates' -- Violence, self-harm and madness -- The aftermath -- Notes

Introduction: Calais in context -- The Burgundian siege of 1436 -- The organisation of the garrison -- The nature of military service in the pale -- Chivalry and professionalism in the Calais garrison -- Weaponry and fortifications in Calais -- Financing and supplying the garrison -- The fall of Calais in 1558 -- Conclusion: War and military service in England, 1436-1558