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i came across this article recently:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/">http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/</a><br>
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apparently the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years; there
must be all kinds of social structures within the camps. why would
the government want to destroy the initiatives that people have
created at calais - surely it would be better to support them?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/02/16 12:52 23PM, Babak
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Fascinating!
<div>This sounds quite a bit like the descriptions of refugee
camps in, for example, the western DRC, as a consequence of the
long conflict there, over the last few decades.</div>
<div>There, though, the lack of regulation meant these camps and
the aid that came in through the many agencies was heavily
abused by well connected individuals operating either as an
effective mafia, or as local branches of the insurgents that
were fighting in one of the nearby conflicts.</div>
<div>The drive for self organization is only normal, but the lack
of structure also opens the way for manipulation and control.
Did you see, or are you aware of, the negative aspects of this
Calais jungle? What shape did it take?<br>
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On Monday, February 8, 2016, isabelle arvers <<a
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I am just back from Calais jungle where I spent the
weekend as I want to make machinima workshops there about
daily lives in the jungle. On the sencond day I only
succeeded to give an english lesson through a machinima
software to 2 young kurds, but what I saw there is full of
energy, settlement, more looking like an emerging
ephemeral city than a camp. There are now two schools, two
libraries, a disco, many restaurants, etc.. The
governmental answer to that is the will to destroy this
and reemplace the jungle by a camp, closed and securised,
full of white, unhuman containers looking like cattle pen.<br>
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What I also saw made me think to a taz, perh<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-08 3:48 GMT+01:00 Ana
Valdés <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p dir="ltr">In all my visits to Palestine Damascus
Jordan and Baghdad I met both Muslims Christians and
secularized ppl, "freelance muslims" as much I am a
"freelance catholic". In Damascus I interviewed Khaled
Meshal Hamas political leader at that time the Hamas
direction was in Damascus now they are resettled in
Qatar since they don't support Assad's regime in
Syria. Meshal was living as a refugee among refugees
in a poor neighborhood of Damascus. The creation of
the state of Israel created millions of refugees the
difference between the people reaching Europe today is
the Palestinian created refugee camps in all the
countries around Palestine and they were welcomed by
Syria Jordan and Lebanon.<br>
The English writer John Berger, himself living in
exile from his native UK, in a peasant village in the
mountains in France near Switzerland, wrote once: "The
20th century was the first time in human history the
concept of home dissapeared. The home heimat le pays
all aceptions of the same feeling of belonging to a
place to a country they are shattered now."<br>
Millions are on the move settled and resettled the
maps are being redrawn nobody is home any longer.<br>
When I came to Palestine for first time and told them
I lived in Sweden in exile because I was sent there by
the United Nations directly from jail many of our new
friends laughed and told me they had also being in
Israeli jails at different occasions.<br>
And back in Uruguay I joke with friends and tell them
before you could ask ppl where do you live, have we
being neighbors? Did we go to thr same school?<br>
Now we ask you seem known to me I recognize you in
which jail or military caserne we met?<br>
The jail or the refugee camp risk to become the
world's common denominator <br>
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