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The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and immigrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France, that existed from January 2015 to October 2016.^[1]

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A. A. Gill

Adrian Anthony Gill (28 June 1954 – 10 December 2016) was a Scottish journalist, critic, and author.

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A16 autoroute

The A16 autoroute – also known as L'Européenne and forming between Abbeville and Dunkirk a part of the larger Autoroute des estuaires – is a motorway in northern France.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (IPA:; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist.

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Aid agency

An aid agency, also known as development charity, is an organization dedicated to distributing aid.

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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Amelia Gentleman

Amelia Sophie Gentleman (born 1972) is a British journalist.

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Anglican Bishop of Leeds

The Anglican Bishop of Leeds is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.

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Assault

An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.

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Asylum in France

Seeking asylum in France is a legal right that is admitted by the constitution of France.

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Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation.

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Basroch refugee camp

Basroch refugee camp was situated in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France. Calais Jungle and Basroch refugee camp are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Bernard Cazeneuve

Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve (born 2 June 1963) is a French politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 December 2016 to 15 May 2017.

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Biometrics

Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features.

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Border guard

A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security.

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Bunk bed

A bunk bed or set of bunks is a type of bed in which one bed frame (a bunk) is stacked on top of another bed, allowing two or more sleeping-places to occupy the floor space usually required by just one.

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions).

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Calais

Calais (traditionally) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture.

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Calais Action

Calais Action is a direct-giving refugee aid and advocacy group which is part of the UK grassroots aid movement. Calais Jungle and Calais Action are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Internationalis (Latin for) is a confederation of 162 national Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.

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Caseworker

In social work, a caseworker is not a social worker but is employed by a government agency, nonprofit organization, or another group to take on the cases of individuals and provide them with advocacy, information and solutions.

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Cattle prod

A cattle prod, also called a stock prod or a hot stick, is a handheld device commonly used to make cattle or other livestock move by striking or poking them.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Chain-link fencing

A chain-link fence (also referred to as wire netting, wire-mesh fence, chain-wire fence, cyclone fence, hurricane fence, or diamond-mesh fence) is a type of woven fence usually made from galvanized or linear low-density polyethylene-coated steel wire.

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Child migration

Child migration or "children in migration or mobility" (sometimes more generally "children on the move") is the movement of people ages 3–18 within or across political borders, with or without their parents or a legal guardian, to another country or region.

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Children's rights

Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.

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Choose Love (organisation)

Choose Love (formerly Help Refugees) is a UK-based non-governmental organization (NGO) which provides humanitarian aid to, and advocacy for, refugees around the world. Calais Jungle and Choose Love (organisation) are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Church (building)

A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.

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Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité

The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (Republican Security Corps), abbreviated CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police.

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Conservatoire du littoral

The Conservatoire du littoral ("Coastal protection agency") (official name: Conservatoire de l'espace littoral et des rivages lacustres) is a French public organisation created in 1975 to ensure the protection of outstanding natural areas on the coast, banks of lakes and stretches of water of 10 square kilometres or more.

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Containerized housing unit

A containerized housing unit, usually abbreviated as CHU (and sometimes called containerized living unit or CLU) is an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters.

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Darfur

Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.

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Dawn O'Porter

Dawn O'Porter (born Dawn Porter; 23 January 1979) is a Scottish writer, director, and television presenter.

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Dean of Durham

The Dean of Durham is the "head" (primus inter pares – first among equals) and chair of the Chapter, the ruling body of Durham Cathedral.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Directive 82/501/EC

Directive 82/501/EC was a European Union law aimed at improving the safety of sites containing large quantities of dangerous substances.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Drowning

Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid.

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Dublin Regulation

The Dublin Regulation (Regulation No. 604/2013; sometimes the Dublin III Regulation; previously the Dublin II Regulation and Dublin Convention) is a Regulation of the European Union that determines which EU member state is responsible for the examination of an application for asylum, submitted by persons seeking international protection under the Geneva Convention and the Qualification Directive, within the European Union.

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Dune

A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.

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Economic migrant

An economic migrant is someone who emigrates from one region to another, including crossing international borders, seeking an improved standard of living, because the conditions or job opportunities in the migrant's own region are insufficient.

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Edlumino

Edlumino Education Aid is a nonprofit charity working to improve education for disadvantaged and displaced children around the world. Calais Jungle and Edlumino are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Environmental injustice in Europe

Environmental injustice is the exposure of poor and marginalised communities to a disproportionate share of environmental harms such as hazardous waste, when they do not receive benefits from the land uses that create these hazards.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Eviction

Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord.

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Extremism

Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Fionn Whitehead

Fionn Whitehead (born 18 July 1997) is an English actor.

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Foundation (engineering)

In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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France 24

France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.

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France 3

France 3 is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info.

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France Info

France Info (stylised as franceinfo) is a French public broadcasting service produced in collaboration with France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel.

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France Info (TV channel)

France Info (stylized as franceinfo) is a French domestic rolling news channel which started broadcasting on 31 August 2016 at 6:00 p.m. on the Web.

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French Red Cross

The French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM).

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Full Fact

Full Fact is a British charity, based in London, which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media.

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Government of France

The Government of France (French: Gouvernement français), officially the Government of the French Republic, exercises executive power in France.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Grande-Synthe

Grande-Synthe (Groot-Sinten) is a commune in the Nord department in the Nord-Pas de Calais region in northern France.

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Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

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Hashtag

A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Tumblr as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Holiday camp

A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within the site boundary, and provides entertainment and facilities for them throughout the day.

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Homeless shelter

Homeless shelters are a type of service that provides temporary residence for homeless individuals and families.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Homelessness in France

Homelessness in France is a significant social issue that is estimated to affect around 300,000 people - a figure that has doubled since 2012 (141,500) and tripled since 2001 (93,000).

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Human Flow

Human Flow is a 2017 German documentary film co-produced and directed by Ai Weiwei about the current global refugee crisis.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Human Trafficking Foundation

The Human Trafficking Foundation is a London-based charity founded by the Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament, Anthony Steen.

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Illegal immigration to the United Kingdom

It is difficult to measure how many people reside in the UK without authorisation, although a Home Office study based on Census 2001 data released in March 2005 estimated a population of between 310,000 and 570,000.

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Immigration detention

Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jaz O'Hara

Jasmin O'Hara (born 10 April 1990) is a British woman human rights defender working in the field of international refugee support, and founder of Asylum Speakers.

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Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.

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Kate Evans

Kate Evans (born 1972) is a British cartoonist, non-fiction author and graphic novelist.

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La Croix (newspaper)

La Croix (English: 'The Cross') is a daily French general-interest Catholic newspaper.

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La Linière

La Linière refugee camp was situated in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France. Calais Jungle and La Linière are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present) and European migrant crisis.

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Landfill

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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Le Parisien

Le Parisien is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs.

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Le Point

Le Point is a French weekly political and conservative news magazine published in Paris.

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Les Inrockuptibles

Les Inrockuptibles, abbreviated as Les Inrocks, is a French cultural magazine.

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Libération

(liberation), popularly known as Libé, is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.

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Lily Allen

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress.

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Lisa Mandel

Lisa Mandel (known as, Lisa; born 23 April 1977, Marseille) is a French bande dessinée comic book author.

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List of border crossing points in France

The following is a list of border crossing points in France (points de passages frontaliers, or "PPF") forming the external border of the Schengen Area.

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Logistics

Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Loon-Plage

Loon-Plage (Loon) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in Paris, New York City, London and Tokyo.

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Malnutrition

Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.

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Marta Welander

Marta Welander is a passionate advocate for human rights and has over 10 years of experience working for non-governmental organisations.

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Mayor (France)

In France, a mayor (maire) is chairperson of the municipal council, which organises the work and deliberates on municipal matters.

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Médecins du Monde

Médecins du monde (MdM), or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian organization which seeks to provide emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Member state of the European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership.

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Migrants around Calais

Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990sN. Calais Jungle and Migrants around Calais are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present), history of Calais and squats in France.

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Minister of the Interior (France)

Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'Intérieur) is a prominent position in the Government of France.

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Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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Natacha Bouchart

Natacha Bouchart (born 29 May 1963) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Calais Jungle and Natacha Bouchart are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Natura 2000

Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicolas Klotz

Nicolas Klotz (born 22 June 1954) is a French filmmaker born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.

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Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the president of France and co-prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.

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No Border network

The No Border Network (In the United Kingdom also called "No Borders Network" or "Noborders Network") refers to loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Opposition to immigration

Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political ideology that seeks to restrict immigration.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pas-de-Calais

The Pas-de-Calais ("strait of Calais"; Pas-Calés; also Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

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People smuggling

People smuggling (also called human smuggling), under U.S. law, is "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries' laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents".

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Pepper spray

Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin as the active ingredient that irritates the eyes to cause burning and pain sensations, as well as temporary blindness.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.

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Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969.

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Police brutality

Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group.

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Police raid

A police raid is an unexpected visit by police or other law enforcement officers with the aim of using the element of surprise to seize evidence or arrest suspects believed to be likely to hide evidence, resist arrest, endanger the public or officers if approached through other means, or simply be elsewhere at another time.

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Port of Calais

The Port of Calais in northern France is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic.

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Prefect (France)

A prefect (préfet, plural préfets) in France is the state's representative in a department or region.

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Radio X (United Kingdom)

Radio X is a British national commercial radio station focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, and owned by Global.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Refugee

A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.

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Refugee children

Nearly half of all refugees are children, and almost one in three children living outside their country of birth is a refugee.

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Refugee health

Refugee health is the field of study on the health effects experienced by people who have been displaced into another country or even to another part of the world, as a result of unsafe circumstances such as war or persecution.

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Refugee women

Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Riot police

Riot police are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots.

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Roads (film)

Roads is a 2019 internationally co-produced drama film, directed by Sebastian Schipper, from a screenplay by Schipper and Oliver Ziegenbalg.

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Route nationale 216

Route Nationale 216, also known as the Rocade Est or Rocade Portuaire, is a French trunk road that connects the long-distance A-16 and A-26 autoroutes to the Calais ferries towards the United Kingdom. Calais Jungle and Route nationale 216 are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sangatte

Sangatte is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department on the northern coast of France on the English Channel. Calais Jungle and Sangatte are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international, non-governmental organization.

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Schengen Agreement

The Schengen Agreement is a treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished.

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Sebastian Schipper

Sebastian Schipper (born 8 May 1968) is a German actor and filmmaker.

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Sexual violence

Sexual violence is any harmful or unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent, by any individual regardless of their relationship to the victim.

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Shanty town

A shanty town, squatter area or squatter settlement is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood.

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Shas Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan

Shaista Ahmad Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan (شائستہ احمد شیہان; born 29 July 1959) is a British politician and life peer.

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Shipping container

A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.

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Somalia

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.

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Songs of Praise

Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns sung in churches of varying denominations from around the UK.

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Soup kitchen

A soup kitchen, food kitchen, or meal center is a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for no price, or sometimes at a below-market price (such as coin donations).

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Statewatch

Statewatch is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 that monitors civil liberties and other issues in the European Union and encourages investigative reporting and research.

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Stéphane Bak

Stéphane Bak (born 19 September 1996) is a French actor and comedian of Congolese origin.

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.

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Stowaway

A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus.

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Sue Clayton

Sue Clayton is a UK film director, writer and activist, best known for her work on the rights of refugee children.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Tap water

Tap water (also known as running water, piped water or municipal water) is water supplied through a tap, a water dispenser valve.

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Tear gas

Tear gas, also known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator, sometimes colloquially known as "mace" after the early commercial self-defense spray, is a chemical weapon that stimulates the nerves of the lacrimal gland in the eye to produce tears.

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Television licensing in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom and the British Islands, any household watching or recording television transmissions at the same time they are being broadcast is required by law to hold a television licence.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jungle (play)

The Jungle is a play by Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy.

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The Son of a Migrant from Syria

The Son of a Migrant from Syria is a 2015 mural by graffiti artist Banksy. Calais Jungle and The Son of a Migrant from Syria are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Toby Jones

Toby Edward Heslewood JonesBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 7 September 1966) is an English actor.

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Tom Odell

Thomas Peter Odell (born 24 November 1990) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Truck driver

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; an HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck, which is commonly defined as a large goods vehicle (LGV) or heavy goods vehicle (HGV) (usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck).

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Unaccompanied minor

An unaccompanied minor (sometimes "unaccompanied child" or "separated child") is a child without the presence of a legal guardian.

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UNITED for Intercultural Action

UNITED for Intercultural Action is a European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, in which over 560 organisations from 48 European countries cooperate.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations special rapporteur

Special rapporteur (or independent expert) is the title given to independent human rights experts whose expertise is called upon by the United Nations (UN) to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective.

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Unreported employment

Unreported employment, also known as money under the table, working under the table, off the books, cash-in-the-claw, money-in-the-paw, or illicit work is illegal employment that is not reported to the government.

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UTC+01:00

UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00.

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Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun, also known as the Sun, is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Verbal abuse

Verbal abuse (also known as verbal aggression, verbal attack, verbal violence, verbal assault, psychic aggression, or psychic violence) is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral, gestured, and written language directed to a victim.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais_Jungle

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