Tina Winterlik: Fire Truck For Calais

Monday, January 4, 2016

"When some of our crew drove down to asses the situation and see if lives were at risk, they immediately pinpointed a way in which Arcadia’s particular areas of knowledge might be of use. Within hours, a gigantic and all too familiar sound was heard –a gas explosion. Running toward the first plumes of smoke, a second gas bottle blew, shooting a terrifying fireball into the sky. "http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/calais-migrant-camp-gets-a-fire-truck-care-of-dance-party-crew/
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Away from the chaotic scenes on Calais's motorways and ports, the migrant camp known as the 'new Jungle' is growing fast and showing signs of becoming a permanent fixture. The Guardian spent three weeks following the lives of a few of its 3,000 residents, rare in-depth access that reveals a growing human cost of the crisis, and the challenges facing refugees and migrants trying to reach Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2015/jul/27/calais-migrants-jungle-camp-video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12080369/Calais-migrant-who-walked-length-of-Channel-Tunnel-to-Britain-is-granted-asylum.html

Migrants in the Channel Tunnel complex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais_jungle
The Calais jungle is the nickname given to a migrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France, where migrants live while they attempt to enter the United Kingdom.
The migrants, who frequently stow away on lorries, ferries, cars, or trains travelling through the Port of Calais or the Eurotunnel terminus, are a mixture of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants.

The "jungle" has no fixed location, with migrants setting up camp on unoccupied land and moving to new locations when camps are closed down by the French authorities, while others illegally occupy abandoned buildings. In April 2015, The Guardian reported that the "official" and principal "jungle" in Calais was located at a former landfill site, three miles from the centre of town, and occupied by 1,000 of the 6,000 migrants in Calais. According to the paper, it was one of nine camps then existing in Calais. This jungle for the first time had showers, electricity and toilets, plus one hot meal served per day, but without proper accommodation.^[2]

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrants_around_Calais}

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12080369/Calais-migrant-who-walked-length-of-Channel-Tunnel-to-Britain-is-granted-asylum.html

Refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe via illegal routes

Proportion of migrants who are from Syria

Syrian refugees being housed in Lebanon – a country 100 times smaller than Europe

Proportion of people in Lebanon who are refugees

According to the head of the UN refugee agency, one in 122 people is a refugee

Proportion of migrants who land in Italy and Greece, then get as far as Calais

Illegal migrants were stopped from entering Britain by UK Border Force officials in 2015

Proportion of female refugees from Syria who are pregnant in Turkey

Data as of November 2015