These Instagram Photos Show What Life's Like For Migrants Stuck In Calais

BuzzFeed - Latest 2015-07-01

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“France is dog life,” one piece of graffiti in the port city of Calais says.

Photographer Phil Le Gal is traveling across Europe to visit both old and new borders for his project The New Continent. He’s so far been posting pictures from Calais, a French port city where migrants trying to reach the UK often get stuck.

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Some of Le Gal’s photos show daily life in "the Jungle," a maze of tents where around 3,000 migrants are in a limbo between Britain and France. Here’s a man who fled conflict in Baghdad and ended up in the camp. He didn't want to be named.

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Here’s a makeshift church in the Jungle.

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And here’s an Afghan convenience store set up by people living in the camp. The trip to the nearest supermarket is a 30-minute walk.

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Authors:

Shyamantha Asokan

Date tagged:

07/01/2015, 12:34

Date published:

07/01/2015, 12:06