How Migration Policies Created a “Jungle”
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© Sara Prestianni The “Jungle of Calais” is a sprawling display of Europe’s failed migration policies. This week, authorities cleared the informal migrant encampment of its thousands of residents. Encampments like this are a result of ineffective pledges from political leaders, and deficient European reception centers that don’t meet the needs of incoming migrants and refugees. It’s a dysfunctional system made worse by uneven policymaking, and until this changes, these encampments, once cleared, will simply return.
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