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Calais

Some 160 Ukrainian refugees — mostly women and young children — are being housed at a shelter in Calais while they wait for their visas to go to the UK.
Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees trying to get to the UK are stuck in the French port city of Calais 
Abdul Saboor, an award-winning Afghan photographer in France, documents a soccer game at a refugee encampment in Calaís, France.
This Afghan photographer captures life in Calaís migrant encampments
A young refugee on the outskirts of Quai Andrieux in Calais, France, after a meal distribution, July 25, 2017.
Conflict
Photos: As migrants return to Calais, French police try to stop the birth of a new ‘Jungle’
Migrants and police in Calais
Justice
Teenage migrants in Calais are getting beaten by police
Calais
Economics
Migrants are returning to Calais, France, and residents aren’t sure how to cope
A youth throws a stone as smoke and flames rise from a burning makeshift shelter in protest against the partial dismantlement of the camp for migrants called the "jungle," in Calais.
Conflict
French police begin a partial demolition of the ‘Jungle’ in Calais, sparking unrest
British volunteer Tally Oliver took a leave from her job in the UK and loaded her car with provisions to help migrant families in the camp at Grande-Synthe. "It's a humanitarian crisis that we all have to take responsibility for."
Conflict
A migrant camp in northern France has grown so big it’s now ‘a village within the town’
It's a cold winter day and there are camp fires everywhere
Conflict
This French refugee camp has rats, mud and toilets that are overflowing.
Photographer Carlos Barria holds a print of a photograph he took in 2005, as he matches it up at the same location 10 years on, in New Orleans. The print shows Errol Morning sitting on his boat on a flooded street September 5, 2005, after Hurricane Katrin
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Conflict & Justice
France breaks up Afghan migrant camps