amid growing fears

amid growing fears

Because of its unique position, Calais has become the gateway through which many asylum seekers attempt to enter the UK. The Jungle was their temporary home at the time we were there, a tarpaulin town in the woods from which they later scattered after its razing by the authorities that year. They make their escape via ferry after precariously clinging to trucks, stowing away or, more desperately and violently, by carjacking tourists.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.