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Shelter provision and state sovereignty in Calais

Forced migration review, 2017-06 (55), p.30-32 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development Jun 2017 ;ISSN: 1460-9819 ;EISSN: 2051-3070

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  • Title:
    Shelter provision and state sovereignty in Calais
  • Author: Boyle, Michael
  • Subjects: architects ; Citizenship ; Demolition ; Displaced persons ; Evictions ; forced migration ; Humanitarianism ; IDP ; Immigration ; internal displacement ; Migrants ; migration ; Political activism ; Population ; refugee ; Relocation ; Riot control ; settlement ; Sovereignty ; State ; stateless ; Undocumented immigrants
  • Is Part Of: Forced migration review, 2017-06 (55), p.30-32
  • Description: Government provision of shelter for Calais' migrant population over the last twenty years has prioritised the assertion of state authority over the alleviation of human suffering. Policies in 2015-2016, which involved the destruction of informal shelter and the provision of basic alternative accommodation, continued this trend. Successive French governments have responded to the large undocumented migrant population in the northern port of Calais by heightening security around the border and by controlling migrants' access to shelter in the immediate vicinity of Calais. There has been a pattern for over twenty years of alternating between providing accommodation and conducting evictions or forced relocations. Reception centres have opened and then shut down and encampments have been allowed to grow and then demolished. Shelter provision is political as much as it is humanitarian. In 2016, the dismantling of the Jungle and the forced relocation of its inhabitants were a response to the challenge to state authority posed by the rapidly growing informal settlement.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development
  • Language: English;Arabic
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1460-9819
    EISSN: 2051-3070
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