Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

Hicks, Dan; Mallet, Sarah

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“…My thesis is dedicated, in part, to contextualising the Jungle in the longer term history of migrant inhabitance in Calais, and to compensate for the volume of Junglecentric research on Calais that has emerged in recent years, and which can sometimes neglect to position it appropriately within this history (e.g. Ansaloni, 2020;Davies, 2015;Davies and Isakjee, 2015;Dhesi, Isakjee, and Davies, 2018;Doidge and Sandri, 2019;Hall, Lounasmaa, and C. Squire, 2019;Hicks and Mallet, 2019;Koegler, 2017;Martens, 2019;McGee and Pelham, 2018;Mould, 2017a,b;Müller and Zinflou, 2019;Sandri, 2018;Sanyal, 2017;Ticktin, 2016a). Despite the widely held misconception that the Jungle 'was informally established by refugees' (Doidge and Sandri, 2019, p. 465) through autonomous acts of occupation like Calais' previous squats and jungles, in fact, the Jungle was created by the French state for the expressed purpose of containing the unprecedented number of irregular migrants coming to Calais during the 'long summer of migration' in 2014-15.…”

Section: Origins Of the Junglementioning

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“…It is beyond the scope of this chapter to give an extensive description of life and resistance inside the Jungle, but there are a number of works for interested readers which go into greater detail than I am able to here (e.g. Ansaloni, 2020; Calais Writers, 2017;Ellison, 2019;Freedman, 2018;Hall, Lounasmaa, and C. Squire, 2019;Hicks and Mallet, 2019;Katz, 2017;King, 2016;Koegler, 2017;Mould, 2017a,b;Müller and Schlüper, 2018;Müller and Zinflou, 2019;Rosello, 2016;Sanyal, 2017;Ticktin, 2016a;Tyerman, forthcoming). What is clear is that as the Jungle grew so too did informal social and economic infrastructure unmediated by, and in spite of, the state; what has been described in Subsection 4.2.3 as the 'mobile commons'.…”

Section: Life and Resistance In The Junglementioning

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Isacker¹

2020

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This thesis analyses how anti-migrant domicide functions as a technology of citizenship in Calais, France. Evictions, destructions, and securitisations exclude 'non-citizen' migrants from this border city, defining those allowed to exist within it as citizens by contrast. They also destroy the physical infrastructures, social communities, and political solidarities facilitating migrants' irregular journeys to the UK. Thus, the erasure of irregular migrants' autonomous home-spaces reproduces citizenship while reasserting it as the determinant of who can freely exist in, or move beyond, Calais. However, anti-migrant domicide also produces unconventional citizenships beyond nationality or status. The thesis analyses two examples---environmental and humanitarian citizenship---to show how citizen communities in Calais can reconfigure themselves around alternative, nominally more inclusive, sets of values while continuing to exclude irregular migrants. In these cases citizens define themselves either against migrants who are perceived as failing to fulfil citizenship's substantive criteria, or through migrants who are the object of citizen-defining humanitarian or environmentalist performances. While not immediately excluded by their status, migrants 'non-citizens' because of their racialisation in Calais' racist environment and how this has been compounded by the effects of domicide against them.Counter-mapping in this project takes three different forms: cartographic, presenting a map of domicide between 2009-19; narrative, elaborating descriptions of select case studies in Calais' anti-migrant domicidal history; and conceptual, demonstrating how citizenship is produced by these exclusionary spatial interventions. These three modes are combined to map how migrants' spatial exclusion from Calais' 'spaces of citizenship' and their socio-political exclusion reciprocally reinforce one-another.While countering progressive conceptions of citizenship by showing how all citizenship forms analysed in Calais are constituted through migrants' exclusion, the thesis raises questions for the continued invocation of citizenship politics in scholarly analyses of resistance to the border regime. It also argues for the need to (re)create spaces of anti-citizenship as part of struggles for free movement for all. These spaces prefigure coalitional relations beyond citizenship categories, and provide toe-holds from which to resist their institutionalisation in bordering technologies.

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Section: Life and Resistance In The Junglementioning

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Isacker¹

2020

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“…Therefore, these new studies of past frontiers are complemented by research on contemporary walls and barriers from the perspective of refugees and those living in their shadow over the longer term. Two key books have been published recently which are deserving of note, although neither fully integrates contemporary archaeologies with past linear monument constructions and uses (Hicks and Mallet 2019;McAtackney and McGuire 2020).…”

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Collaboratory, Coronavirus and the Colonial Countryside

Williams

2020

OD Journal

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Introducing the second volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ), this five-part article sets the scene by reviewing: (i) key recent research augmenting last year’s Introduction (Williams and Delaney 2019); (ii) the key activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory in 2020; (iii) the political mobilisation of Offa’s Dyke in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns; (iv) the ramifications of accelerated efforts to decolonise the British countryside on both archaeological research and heritage interpretation on linear monuments; and (v) a review of the contents of volume 2. Together, this introduction presents the context and significance of ODJ volume 2 for both research on the Welsh Marches and broader investigations of frontiers and borderlands.

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“…While the Strait of Dover has long been a significant site of asylum seeker im/mobility, in recent years anti-migration politics in Britain and France, and the adoption of the "Common European Asylum System", have led to thousands of would-be refugees becoming stranded on the French side of this maritime border (Gray 2017;Davies, Isakjee, and Dhesi 2017;Cassidy, Yuval-Davis, and Wemyss 2018). Ever stronger border infrastructure, diminishing hopes of gaining asylum in the EU, and the state-enforced squalor that displaced people are exposed to in the port towns of Calais and Dunkirk (see Dhesi, Isakjee, and Davies 2018;Hicks and Mallet 2019), have led to an increasing number of desperate attempts to reach the UK by any means possible.…”

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Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait

Davies

Isakjee

Mayblin

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In 2020, over 8,400 people made their way from France to the UK coast using small vessels. They did so principally in order to claim asylum in the United Kingdom (UK). Much like in other border-zones, the UK state has portrayed irregular Channel crossings as an invading threat and has deployed a militarized response. While there is burgeoning scholarship focusing on informal migrant camps in the Calais area, there has been little analysis of state responses to irregular Channel crossings. This article begins to address this gap, situating contemporary British responses to irregular Channel crossers within the context of colonial histories and maritime legacies. We focus particularly on the enduring appeal of "the offshore" as a place where undesirable racialized populations can be placed. Our aim is to offer a historicized perspective on this phenomenon which seeks to respond to calls to embed colonial histories in analyses of the present.

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Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Collaboratory, Coronavirus and the Colonial Countryside

Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait

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