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Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion
- Source :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Routledge, 2018.
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Abstract
- © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The ongoing emergency for refugees is having profound and hidden health consequences for thousands of displaced persons who live in informal ‘makeshift’ camps across Europe. This interdisciplinary paper reports the results of the first environmental health assessment in such a location, in what was Europe’s largest informal refugee camp in 2016, in Calais, northern France. We detail the lack of facilities for sanitation, safe provision of food, water and shelter, demonstrating how conditions fall short of agreed international standards for formal refugee camps. Rather than the notion of migrants being the cause of health problems, this paper critically reveals the hidden materiality of bodily injury caused by poor health conditions, where the camp itself produces harm. Drawing upon theories of biopolitical exclusion, the paper concludes by (i) emphasising the empirical and conceptual themes that tie refugee politics and biologies together and (ii) makes a call for increased attention to makeshift camps as key sites of health exclusion in Europe and beyond.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Materiality (auditing)
Sanitation
Refugee
Displaced person
Public health
05 social sciences
0507 social and economic geography
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Calais
Criminology
03 medical and health sciences
Politics
HV
0302 clinical medicine
Harm
Public health, refugee camps, environmental health, migration, exclusion
Development economics
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Sociology
RA
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596 and 14693682
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2cc20745b60a006f5a72334b30642e1b