the AIRE Centre in litigation concerning refugee status of children fleeing
from the migrant camps of Calais
Panchito dreams of living in a world without constant uprooting
from migrant camps and schools, a world in which a compassionate teacher might help him learn and grow.
Not exact matches
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migrants arriving
from squalid
camps in Calais to have their teeth tested to verify their ages.
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I traveled to the Calais
migrant and refugee
camp from March 14 to 16, together with a humanitarian student group
from Brasenose College that collected donations and supplies to aid local NGOs with clothing and basic medical supplies.
In the long, still desert evenings at his
camp, he speaks of
migrants fleeing
from drought - plagued Mesopotamia to this virgin land, bringing a conviction that fire is holy, as well as techniques for brewing a hallucinogenic drink called soma.
Haneke reminds us, too, that just down the road
from the Laurents is the Calais
migrant camp: if we're to read anything into the Laurents's diseased privilege, we should assume Haneke is talking about much more than just one family.
Once a
migrant makes the decision to leave, there are a hundred ways his or her journey might be upended,
from being stuck in a sort of prison
camp run by the smugglers (who ransom their captives to extract even more money
from their families), to arrest by law enforcement officers of varying degrees of legitimacy, to starvation and death by disease or exposure.
A labour intensive stretch of Venetian thoroughfare is shrouded
from top to bottom with used coal sacks, roughly stitched together with different coloured cottons, giving the slightly claustrophobic effect of a military environment, a comment on refugee
camps inhabited by stateless
migrants.