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1999: Government announces evacuation of asylum-seekers as violence erupts in Dover http://www.irr.org.uk/europebulletin/united_kingdom/asylum_seekers_refugees/1999/ak000001.html Home Office minister Lord Bassam responded to the situation in Dover by saying that too many asylum-seekers had been dumped in Dover ...

2001: The Dover 58 http://www.irr.org.uk/europebulletin/united_kingdom/immigration_law/2001/ak000009.html ... of the ferry company P&O to discuss improved security at Dover with Straw citing an operation at the freight yards in Milan which ...

2001: Media hysteria and racist reporting as Roma arrive at Dover http://www.irr.org.uk/europebulletin/united_kingdom/extreme_right_politics/1999/ak000008.html ... he was travelling with his 10-year-old brother on the Ramsgate to Dover ...

1999: Dover - the political fall out http://www.irr.org.uk/europebulletin/united_kingdom/asylum_seekers_refugees/1999/ak000002.html ... had made Britain a soft touch for immigrants. Following the Dover crisis, Hague met with Conservative council leaders of ten local ...

Calais

The situation of exiles on the shore of the Channel and the North Sea http://cfda.rezo.net/download/The%20law%20of%20the%20jungles%20conclusion%2009%2008.pdf

There is a small detention centre in calais: Calais-Coquelles

Fotos: https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/319281.html?c=on

Article in Independant: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/immigration-centres-like-dog-kennels-472885.html "Holding cells used by British officials at a French freight terminal were so basic that staff nicknamed them "the dog kennels", watchdogs revealed today."

Raids and Protest November 2008

oct 2008: Mass riot police operation to break up Calais camps full of Brit-bound migrants http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1079955/Mass-riot-police-operation-break-Calais-camps-Brit-bound-migrants.html

oct 2008: Riot Police Clear Calais Migrant Camps http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/10/riot_police_cle.php

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London Solidarity Protest: http://noborderslondon.blogspot.com/2008/11/solidarity-demo-with-migrants-in-calais.html

Sangatte 1999-2002

2001: The situation at the Sangatte camp in France http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/news/2001/september/20010907thes.htm

May 2002: Sangatte refugee camp http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/may/23/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices1

2002: Sangatte Camp Finale and the Prospects for Asylum in Calais http://www.hambastegi.org/english/selectedarticles/editor138b.htm

2002: Refugees Protest at Sangatte Exclusion http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-12-2002-30141.asp

2002: Scotsman: Sangatte protest stand-off ends with eviction http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Sangatte-protest-standoff-ends-with.2378078.jp

2002: voanews: Controversial Sangatte Refugee Camp is Being Dismantled http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2002-12/a-2002-12-14-13-Controversial.cfm

2002: Independent: Police night raid brings to an end refugees' occupation of church http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/police-night-raid-brings-to-an-end-refugees-occupation-of-church-604273.html

Protest in Oct Sangatte 2002 (with pictures): http://www.noborder.org/archive_item.php?id=165

Sussex Migration Working Paper no. 18 "Images of Sangatte: Political representations of asylum seeking in France and the UK" http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/documents/mwp18.pdf

European Council on Refugees and Exiles position on the Convention http://www.ecre.org/topics/dublin_ii

Schengen Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_agreement

Schengen Information System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Information_System

parliament report on border http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmhaff/775/775we18.htm

Articles at IRR

Two deportation deaths in one month: http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5307

The French Interior Ministry has announced that it intends to increase the rate of deportations, which have fallen in recent years. But, in the last month, two attempted deportations from France have ended in loss of life. 28 January 2003

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5181

New refugee detention centre at Palaseieau, near Paris
Some 80 people attended a public meeting in Palasieau organised by the Collectif Anti-Expulsions to protest against the building of a new refugee retention centre which is to replace another one located in the suburb of Choisy-le-Roi.
17 October 2002 (87 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5182 Deportations of sans papiers continue despite review</a>
MRAP and LHR have complained that while the cases of sans papiers are in the process of being re-examined, deportations continue.
28 September 2002 (53 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5169 Sans papiers movement regroups as government refuses group action The sans papiers movement has been reinvigorated.
20 August 2002 (736 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5168 Sangatte camp - finally to close
The Sangatte refugee camp near Calais will close its doors to new residents from November 15, and close altogether by April 2003.
6 July 2002 (286 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=5180 More reports that reception arrangements are in crisis Plans to extend Coquelles removal centre
24 April 2002 (51 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8813 Eurotunnel tries to close Calais asylum camp Eurotunnel attempted to bring legal proceedings to get the French authorities to close the Sangatte refugee centre, outside Calais.
1 October 2001 (830 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8812 Denial of asylum rights starts in Guyana During a court case involving a young asylum seeker who travelled from Haiti to Guyana to Orly, it has emerged that the overseas department (DOM) has followed a deliberate policy of not distributing forms for asylum applications.
1 October 2001 (231 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8811 Hungarian Gypsies recognised as refugees In an unprecedented move, Ofpra has granted refugee status to two families of Gypsies from Hungary.
1 October 2001 (194 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8810 Minister promises to end reception crisis As criticisms of the abysmal state of France's reception system for asylum seekers deepens, the Employment and Solidarity minister Elisabeth Guigou visited the coordination centre for families seeking asylum (CAFDA) in Paris and promised to create fifty new CAFDA centres spread out across the country.
1 October 2001 (177 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8809 Paris crisis of homelessness among asylum seekers In July, associations for the homeless joined forces with the city planner and philosopher Paul Virilio to issue a statement drawing attention to the crisis in Paris arising from the numbers of destitute housing asylum seekers and sans papiers living on the streets.
1 October 2001 (187 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8808 Anglo-French summit agrees cross-Channel controls The French government has agreed to place Eurotunnel trains between Calais and Paris under international passport control and to establish a 'Trans-Channel Commission' to coordinate measures involving immigration, transport and maritime safety.
1 October 2001 (185 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8807 Lille - asylum applicants degraded and dehumanised After a public scandal, the Lille prefecture has intervened to denounce 'unacceptable practices' at the prefecture du Nord in Lille.
1 October 2001 (253 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8806 Deaf eastern Europeans forced into slavery Police say that they have dismantled an illegal work ring that brought deaf foreigners from eastern Europe to France and forced them to sell trinkets for very little pay.
1 October 2001 (63 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8805 France shocked by arrival of first boat people On 18 February, a Cambodian registered freighter carrying 910 Kurds hit rocks and run aground on the French Riviera, at Fréjus, between Cannes and St. Raphael.
1 October 2001 (589 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=8804 Wealthy Parisian residents oppose asylum advice centre There were hysterical scenes at a press briefing as local residents protested against the opening in July of an asylum advice centre in a disused wing of the Laennac hospital, which lies in the seventh arrondissement of Paris.
1 October 2001 (329 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=431 Immigration labour quotas considered The foreign minister, Hubert Védrine has said that it may be time for France to break with its policy of zero immigration and move towards a quota policy, adaptable to the needs of the economy and to issues of integration.
1 January 2001 (81 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=426 Immigration detainees swell prison numbers According to Le Monde, overcrowding in French prisons is being exacerbated by the fact that people are being imprisoned for infractions of the foreigners' law, principally for not being in possession of a residence permit.
1 January 2001 (542 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=430 European partners criticise France over clandestine entry France is coming under increasing pressure from its European partners to take action against what they describe as 'illegal immigrants' attempting to reach other European countries via French territory.
1 January 2001 (357 words)

http://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=428 Marseilles - Moroccan children homeless and forgotten According to L'Humanité 500 child 'illegals' from Morocco, some as young as ten years old, are sleeping rough in the streets and around the railway stations of Marseilles after being smuggled into France via the Straits of Gibraltar.
1 January 2001 (91 words)

Brighton's Calais Workshop

Here is the text of the talk, together with a time-line covering events largely from October 2008-March 2009 in and around Calais & the images used in the talk. We also showed "No Comment" to starkly illustrate the situation in Calais (the lack of a commentary on the film soundtrack really works after the talk). The whole thing (including film) lasts about 75 minutes (depending on digressions!).

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_Main_Text.pdf

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_Calais_08-09_timeline.pdf

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_1._NW_Europe_outline_large.jpg

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http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_3._calais_map.jpg

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_4._sangatte.jpg

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_5._sangatte.jpg

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_6._58_chinese.jpg

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_7._dover_refugees_clash.jpg

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_8._eurotunnel.JPG

http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/Image:CALAIS_WORKSHOP_-_9._eurotunnel.jpg

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