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Basroch refugee camp was situated in Grande-Synthe,
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. It began as an informal
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in a muddy field in about 2006. As late as summer 2015, it still only contained about 60 residents, but by January 2016, the camp had expanded to more than 2000 people. The very rapid expansion created a
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, as the site was not at all suitable for the large numbers of people who were living there. The rats, refuse, and disease led to it being referred to as "Europe's worst refugee camp." It was described as "appalling," "gut wrenching", and "deplorable." The international NGO
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stated: Aid organisations working at Basroch camp included Emmaüs, Terre d'Errance, Secours catholique et Secours populaire, Aid Box Convey and Edlumino, which provided education to the children of the camp.


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Migrants around Calais Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990sN. Bajekal,Inside Calais's Deadly Migrant Crisis(01/08/15) in Time seeking to enter the United Kingdom from the French port by crossing t ...
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Calais Jungle The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and immigrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France, that existed from January 2015 to October 2016. There had been other camps known as "jungles" in previous years, ...
* La Linière *
Sangatte Sangatte (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department on the northern coast of France on the English Channel. The name is of Flemish origin, meaning hole or gap in the sand. Engineering Sangatte i ...
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European migrant crisis The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and Human migration, migrants into Europe, mostly from the Middle East. An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request Right of asyl ...
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Modern immigration to the United Kingdom Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant, in particular from the former territories of the British Empire and the European Union. ...
* Illegal immigration in the United Kingdom * Channel Tunnel, § Asylum and immigration * Refugees of Iraq * Edlumino


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