Monday, December 07, 2015

New phenomenon in Europe: migrant camps

When it opened in the spring, it comprised little more than a hotchpotch of tents on the sand dunes.

Eight months later, the notorious ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, has grown into a self-contained mini-city — a permanent magnet for people trying to get to Britain.

More than a dozen shops have opened, along with restaurants, libraries, and even makeshift hotels — and, inevitably, an information centre offering advice on how to get asylum in Britain

The camp, which replaced another that was demolished, started as a stopping place for migrants as they awaited an opportunity to be smuggled illegally out of France across the Channel into Britain .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk