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Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990sN.^[1]

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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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Aargauer Zeitung

Aargauer Zeitung (English: Aargauer Newspaper) is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by AZ Medien Gruppe, Aarau, Aargau.

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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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Afghans

Afghans (افغان‌ها) also Afghanistanis (افغانستانی‌ها), (افغانان) or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there.

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In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

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Amelia Gentleman

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

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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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Asylum seeker

An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14.

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Asylum shopping is a term for the practice by some asylum seekers of applying for asylum in several states or seeking to apply in a particular state after traveling through other states.

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Basroch refugee camp

Basroch refugee camp was situated in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France. Migrants around Calais and Basroch refugee camp are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present) and illegal immigration to the United Kingdom.

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Baton charge

A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder.

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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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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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Bilateralism

Bilateralism is the conduct of political, economic, or cultural relations between two sovereign states.

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Border

Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.

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Border control

Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders.

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Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer (Boulonne-su-Mér; Bonen; Gesoriacum or Bononia), often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.

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Bulldozer

A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.

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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 Jungle

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. Migrants around Calais and Calais Jungle are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present), history of Calais and squats in France.

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Carbon dioxide sensor

A carbon dioxide sensor or sensor is an instrument for the measurement of carbon dioxide gas.

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Côte d'Opale

The Opal Coast is a coastal region in northern France on the English Channel, popular with tourists.

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Chainsaw

A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable handheld power saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar.

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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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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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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. Migrants around Calais and Choose Love (organisation) are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Citizenship Studies

Citizenship Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal covering the study of citizenship and related concepts.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and of the Right to Asylum

The Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and of the Right to Asylum (Code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile, CESEDA), often simply referred to as the Code of Foreigners (Code des étrangers), is the legal code compiling French laws and regulations related to the rights of foreigners on French soil.

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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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Coquelles

Coquelles (lang) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department near Calais in northern France. Migrants around Calais and Coquelles are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present) and channel Tunnel.

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Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.

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Damien Carême

Damien Carême (born 16 November 1960) is a French politician of La France Insoumise.

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Demolition

Demolition (also known as razing, cartage, and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down buildings and other artificial structures.

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Deportation

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a territory.

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Detection dog

A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to use its senses to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, currency, blood, and contraband electronics such as illicit mobile phones.

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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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Dieppe

Dieppe (Norman: Dgieppe) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.

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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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Dunkirk

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

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Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has been serving as the 25th president of France since 2017 and ex officio one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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English-speaking world

The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.

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Environmental health

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.

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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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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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European Union law

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU).

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External border of the European Union

The border of the European Union consists of the land borders that member states of the EU share with non-EU states adjacent to the union.

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Fence

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Fire hose

A fire hose (or firehose) is a high-pressure hose that carries water or other fire retardant (such as foam) to a fire to extinguish it.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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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–United Kingdom border

The border between the countries of France and the United Kingdom in Europe is a maritime border that stretches along the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Migrants around Calais and France–United Kingdom border are France–United Kingdom relations.

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Fréthun

Fréthun (lang) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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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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Getlink

Getlink, formerly Groupe Eurotunnel, is a European public company based in Paris that manages and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel between France and the United Kingdom, operates the LeShuttle railway service, and earns revenue on other trains that operate through the tunnel (Eurostar passenger and DB Schenker freight). Migrants around Calais and Getlink are channel Tunnel.

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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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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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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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Home Secretary

The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office.

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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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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.

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Human migration

Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).

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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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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Identity document

An identity document (also called ID or colloquially as papers) is any document that may be used to prove a person's identity.

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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

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

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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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Immigration law

Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country.

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Intimidation

Intimidation is a behaviour and legal wrong which usually involves deterring or coercing an individual by threat of violence.

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Juxtaposed controls

Juxtaposed controls (in bureaux à contrôles nationaux juxtaposés, or "BCNJ"; in kantoren waar de nationale controles van beide landen naast elkaar geschieden) are a reciprocal arrangement between Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom whereby border controls on certain cross-Channel routes take place before boarding the train or ferry, rather than upon arrival after disembarkation. Migrants around Calais and Juxtaposed controls are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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Kurds

Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.

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Kurds in Iraq

The Iraqi Kurds (translit) are the second largest ethnic group of Iraq.

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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. Migrants around Calais and La Linière are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present) and illegal immigration to France.

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Law enforcement in France

Law enforcement in France is centralized at the national level.

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Law of France

French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law (droit privé), also known as judicial law, and public law (droit public).

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Le Monde

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

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Legal person

In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on.

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Leisure Studies

Leisure Studies is an academic journal that publishes original research related to the field of leisure studies.

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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe

The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.

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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 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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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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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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Modern immigration to the United Kingdom

Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant, in particular from the Republic of Ireland and from the former British Empire, especially India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Hong Kong.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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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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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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Nigel Farage

Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and the Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021 when it was called the Brexit Party.

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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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NRC Handelsblad

NRC, previously called, is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media.

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Overpass

An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.

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P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferries from United Kingdom to Ireland, and to Continental Europe (France and the Netherlands).

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Permanent residency

Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.

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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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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff.

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Population transfer

Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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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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Prefectures in France

In France, a prefecture (préfecture) may be.

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President of France

The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Razor wire

Barbed tape or razor wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent trespassing by humans.

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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 camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations.

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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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Regions of France

France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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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. Migrants around Calais and Route nationale 216 are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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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. Migrants around Calais and Sangatte are Calais migrant crisis (1999–present).

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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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Schengen Area

The Schengen Area is an area encompassing European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.

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Security guard

A security guard (also known as a security inspector, security officer, factory guard, or protective agent) is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) from a variety of hazards (such as crime, waste, damages, unsafe worker behavior, etc.) by enforcing preventative measures.

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Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.

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Shadow Home Secretary

In British politics, the shadow home secretary (formally known as the shadow secretary of state for the home department) is the person within the shadow cabinet who shadows the home secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, and matters of citizenship.

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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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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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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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Smuggling

Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.

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Somalia

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

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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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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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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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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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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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Tarpaulin

A tarpaulin or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene.

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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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The British Journal of Sociology

The British Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics.

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The Conversation (website)

The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.

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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 New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary, Lady May (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019.

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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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UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.

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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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References

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

Also known as 2018 Calais Migrant Violence, Calais blockade, Calais migrant camp, Calais migrant crisis, Calais migrant crisis (1999-present).

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