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Chapter 19 - The ‘Jungle’ Is Here; The Jungle Is Outside

University Teaching in the Calais Refugee Camp

from Part III - Confronting Marginalisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2020

By
Corinne Squire  and
Tahir Zaman
Edited by
Jacqueline Bhabha ,
Wenona Giles  and
Faraaz Mahomed
Jacqueline Bhabha
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Wenona Giles
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Faraaz Mahomed
Affiliation:
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
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Summary

This chapter explores the borders of education in relation to contemporary refugee issues in Europe, specifically addressing the informal ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais, Northern France, where University of East London (UEL) colleagues taught an accredited Life Stories short course between September 2015 and October 2016. It suggests that this pedagogy apparently beyond the borders of the conventional university is in some ways precisely the terrain of the university and education more generally. It disassembles ‘education’ itself, in a context where it was at the same time a humanitarian response, a human right and a political field of reciprocity, traversed by processes of coalition, commoning and association. Within this field, the outside of the camp, more than the camp itself, might appear as a jungle, irrational and denying humanity, while the ‘Jungle’ space itself contested neoliberal education and counterposed its own ‘university’.

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Refugeeasylum seekermigrantuniversityCalais‘Jungle’reciprocitycoalitioncommoningassociationalism
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A Better Future
The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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