‘Yes, I am an aid worker, but it will not take away that I am their friend,’ a volunteer in the pre-demolition Calais camp in Northern France tells me, and it is quite a precise description of the dynamics between the volunteers and the migrants residing the camp. How do...
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Signe Sofie Hansen is based in Beirut where she is working on her social enterprise start-up Hala Collective, which aims to empower people and protect the planet through sustainable and inclusive leakproof panties for people with periods and incontinence. She is also an experienced researcher and practitioner with six years of professional experience focusing on displacement, social cohesion, gender equality and sustainable development in fragile contexts, in particular in South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA).
Residents of the Jungle camp in Calais collaborated with King’s College London to document daily life in the camp. Come see what the French authorities destroyed in October 2016. When we planned our research trip to the unofficial refugee camp in Calais in July 2016, we knew that the camp’s...