Space and the Jungle in Calais: Space Making through Place, Policy, Human Movement and Media
Ibrahim, Yasmin and
Howarth, Anita (2015) ‘Space and the Jungle in Calais: Space Making through
Place, Policy, Human Movement and Media’ in Einar Thorsen (ed) Media and the Margins. Basingstoke:
Palgrave MacMillan.
Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick / Calais - Manifestation contre les clandestins, l'immigration-invasion et l'islamisation de l'Europe, 8 novembre 2015 (19) / Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons |
This chapter
analyses how the online versions of Britain’s two mid-market newspapers framed
the migrant camps or ‘jungles’ on the French sea border as marginalised spaces. The
French town of Calais has been
the focal point of debates about illegal entry to the United Kingdom and in
tandem cross-border tensions. The jungle as a physical entity is drawn into
space-making in a multitude of ways which are complex and entwined. We examine
discursive and material space constructions in framing human migration and how borders
as interstitial spaces become continually redefined and reconstructed through
the interactions of the corporeal body with the physical environment, policy
enactments and cross border patrols. Spaces at the margin functioning beyond
metaphors become heuristic entities where their material and intangible
construction and destruction have consequences for shaping human empathy and
engagement as well as distance and detachment with the migrant as a human and
with immigration debates.
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