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摘要

The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants by Michael Agier and co-authors provides a multidimensional view of the history, establishment and destruction of the migrant encampment near Calais, France. Referred to as the Calais Jungle, the camp-at least at one point-contained 10,000 inhabitants. The book's interdisciplinary approach will appeal to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others, and its inclusion of non-academic voices-the study was conducted by a team of researchers, students and members of voluntary organizations-makes it a unique and timely intervention. The authors describe their approach to constructing a history and evaluation of the encampment near Calais as an exercise in 'forensic anthropology' and a 'diagnosis of the causes, process and effects of the life and death of the Calais Jungle' (p. 21).