Calais

Ukrainian refugees trying to get to the UK are stuck in the French port city of Calais

March 11, 2022Ukraine

For the more than 17,000 Ukrainians who have applied for UK visas under the Ukrainian Family Scheme, the application process has created a bottleneck in Calais.

Abdul Saboor, an award-winning Afghan photographer in France, documents a soccer game at a refugee encampment in Calaís, France.

This Afghan photographer captures life in Calaís migrant encampments

September 13, 2021

A young refugee on the outskirts of Quai Andrieux in Calais, France, after a meal distribution, July 25, 2017.

Photos: As migrants return to Calais, French police try to stop the birth of a new ‘Jungle’

August 22, 2017Conflict

Teenage migrants in Calais are getting beaten by police

April 13, 2017Justice

Migrants are returning to Calais, France, and residents aren’t sure how to cope

March 31, 2017Economics

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A youth throws a stone as smoke and flames rise from a burning makeshift shelter in protest against the partial dismantlement of the camp for migrants called the "jungle," in Calais.

French police begin a partial demolition of the ‘Jungle’ in Calais, sparking unrest

February 29, 2016Conflict

French officials have begun dismantling a portion of a large migrant camp in the port city of Calais. Authorities were forced to put out a fire at a makeshift shelter and riot police were on hand after migrants began throwing stones inside the camp known as the Jungle. The government plans to relocate migrants to reception centers.

British volunteer Tally Oliver took a leave from her job in the UK and loaded her car with provisions to help migrant families in the camp at Grande-Synthe. "It's a humanitarian crisis that we all have to take responsibility for."

A migrant camp in northern France has grown so big it’s now ‘a village within the town’

February 1, 2016Conflict

What happens when no one is in charge at a camp that shelters migrants in northern France? “Total anarchy,” says one charity worker.

It's a cold winter day and there are camp fires everywhere

This French refugee camp has rats, mud and toilets that are overflowing.

January 28, 2016Conflict

The French refugee camp’s population has increased by nearly 5000 percent in just five months

Photographer Carlos Barria holds a print of a photograph he took in 2005, as he matches it up at the same location 10 years on, in New Orleans. The print shows Errol Morning sitting on his boat on a flooded street September 5, 2005, after Hurricane Katrin

5 stories to make you smile and think

August 24, 2015Global Scan

From newlyweds who spent their honeymoon providing food for refugees in Calais, to what Jimmy Carter really wants to be known for, and how David Foster Wallace is remembered by his little sister. Thoughtful stories for the week ahead.

France breaks up Afghan migrant camps

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

This week French police cleared out one camp known as ‘the jungle,’ where hundreds of illegal migrants had been making their home in unsanitary conditions. Emma Jane Kirby, the BBC’s Paris correspondent, was there and joins us with the story.

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