Book Chapters by Cannelle Gueguen-Teil
On the Meaning of Shelter: Living in Calais's Camps de la Lande Cannelle Gueguen-Teil and Irit Katz, 2018
This chapter discusses institutional and informal emergency shelters created in Calais' Jungle Ca... more This chapter discusses institutional and informal emergency shelters created in Calais' Jungle Camp and Container Camp between 2015-2016. The chapter goes beyond the analyses of the “disciplining” and “controlling” elements of the containers, on the one hand, and beyond the “necropolitical” analysis of the Jungle makeshift camp, on the other. By providing an ethnographical account of how migrants experienced both camps de la Lande—the container camp and the makeshift Jungle—and in particular, the ways in which migrants created material and spatial alternatives to the control mechanisms of the institutional camp in the surrounding makeshift camp, this chapter explores the broader meaning of “shelters” in the camps de la Lande.
Both Calais’s Jungle makeshift camp and container camp no longer exist; while the Jungle was demolished in October 2016, the container camp was dismantled later in 2017. Yet, the existence of both of these camps side by side, for more than ten months, provided an opportunity to analyze the different kind of shelter they had offered, enabling to capture, at the micro-scale, various ways of living in temporary shelters and of relating to them on the part of their inhabitants. This ethnographic account adds to our previous analysis on the differences between prefabricated and freely-fabricated shelters (Katz 2017) that provide very different living conditions for displaced people.
Chapter 5 in Camps Revisited: https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/camps_revisited/3-156-e104fe5a-c986-4af3-bbf8-b5f8ad82594c
For a copy of the full chapter, please send me an email to i.katz@sheffield.ac.uk
Papers by Cannelle Gueguen-Teil
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Book Chapters by Cannelle Gueguen-Teil
Both Calais’s Jungle makeshift camp and container camp no longer exist; while the Jungle was demolished in October 2016, the container camp was dismantled later in 2017. Yet, the existence of both of these camps side by side, for more than ten months, provided an opportunity to analyze the different kind of shelter they had offered, enabling to capture, at the micro-scale, various ways of living in temporary shelters and of relating to them on the part of their inhabitants. This ethnographic account adds to our previous analysis on the differences between prefabricated and freely-fabricated shelters (Katz 2017) that provide very different living conditions for displaced people.
Chapter 5 in Camps Revisited: https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/camps_revisited/3-156-e104fe5a-c986-4af3-bbf8-b5f8ad82594c
For a copy of the full chapter, please send me an email to i.katz@sheffield.ac.uk
Papers by Cannelle Gueguen-Teil