[-empyre-] Welcome to February 2016: Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? The Numbers Now and The Number Then

[helen varley jamieson]

i came across this article recently:
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/

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?

On 8/02/16 12:52 23PM, Babak Fakhamzadeh wrote:
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>
> Fascinating!
> 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.
> 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.
> 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?
>
> On Monday, February 8, 2016, isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com
> <mailto:iarvers at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     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.
>     What I also saw made me think to a taz, perh
>
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>     2016-02-08 3:48 GMT+01:00 Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com
>     <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','agora158 at gmail.com');>>:
>
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>         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.
>         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."
>         Millions are on the move settled and resettled the maps are
>         being redrawn nobody is home any longer.
>         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.
>         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?
>         Now we ask you seem known to me I recognize you in which jail
>         or military caserne we met?
>         The jail or the refugee camp risk to become the world's common
>         denominator
>         Ana
>
>

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