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E-book Lande : The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

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“We have fulfilled our mission; the humanitarian dismantling operation is over,” announced Fabienne Buccio, Préfète of Pas-de-Calais, on Thursday 27 October 2016.1 Her words described the completion of an episode, a supposed end to the ‘Jungle’. But in reality this speech marked the end of neither the ‘Jungles’ of Calais nor the ongoing experience of displaced people in Hauts-de-France of cycles of building, dismantling, counter-building and demolitions. This book reconstructs and revisits some of what emerged at the place that was known, for a year and a half between March 2015 and October 2016, as the Camp de la Lande. This was the controversial and euphemistic name used by the French authorities for the site of the ‘Jungle’, as it existed as a ‘tolerated’ encampment on the eastern borders of Calais, less than half a kilometre from the Port of Calais and adjacent to the Rocade Est ring road (N216) that takes lorries and cars to the Ferry Terminal. The French term ‘lande’ means ‘heath’ or ‘moor’, and it refers here to a marginal physical geography of sandy outlands, flats and dunes. In contrast, the term ‘Jungle de Calais’ has been used to describe many different larger and smaller encampments in the Calais area since around the turn of the millennium, although is now most associated with La Lande, and as a word it has further dehumanised those living on European soil in extreme conditions of precarity. The coinage ‘Jungle’ appears to derive from the Pashto word ‘dzjangal’, meaning a forest or wooded area, and French anthropologist Michel Agier has suggested that its use began in the 1970s in Pakistan to refer to Afghan refugee camp there, ‘before being picked up and spread by Afghans themselves to name their places of refuge on the roadsides of their exile, and then to become a generic term for precarious migrant settlements’ (Agier, 2016a: 56, our translation). It is also, as Thomas Mu?ller and Uwe Schlu?per have observed (2018: 7), part of a racist taunt by the French hard right and even by the police: ‘Get back to your jungle!’

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 HIC l

Penerbit

London : Policy Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

156 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781529206227

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301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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