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April 2024

  • People attempt to cross Channel hours after passing of UK's Rwanda legislation – video

    French authorities have said at least five people, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the Channel south of Calais

March 2024

  • A composite photograph of three young men, one holding a little girl

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

    French authorities accused of failing to investigate the fates of refugees who have gone missing at sea while trying to cross by boat to the UK, with families still waiting for news of loved ones

February 2024

  • Nicola Trahan, 1950s

    Nicola Trahan obituary

  • People wearing life jackets sit in a dinghy as they cross the Channel from France to Britain in March 2022

    Calais people-smuggling gang broken up with 19 arrests, says Europol

December 2023

  • Stop the hate protest in London, UK - 18 Dec 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (14263624a) A woman holds a placard to support refugees in the UK during the protest outside the Home Office in London. People gathered at the Home Office in London to protest against the racism and the Rwanda deportation plan of refugees by the UK Government on the UK International Migrants Day. Stop the hate protest in London, UK - 18 Dec 2023

    Britain needs a strategy to welcome refugees

    Letters: Asylum seekers want to contribute, as my parents did in the 1930s, writes Helen Singer; plus a letter from Dr John R Whittaker
  • A mural in Caracas, Venezuela, on 19 December 2023 shows a map of the country that includes the Essequibo region, over which it has a dispute with Guyana.

    Brief letters
    Is reclaiming Calais such a Caracas idea?

    Letters: Venezuelan mapping | Anonymous presents | Tree swallows | Hullraisers | Slow Horses
  • Migrants boat crossing Channel.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    More needs to be done to disrupt people smugglers, says Labour after one person dies in Channel crossing – as it happened

    Anneliese Dodds calls for more action to break up human trafficking gangs that are facilitating boat crossings

August 2023

  • On Our Doorstep … spurred to action.

    On Our Doorstep review – extraordinary story of volunteers in the Calais Jungle

    Thomas Laurance’s documentary focuses on the British activists who arrived in the refugee camp with housing materials and other life-saving supplies

March 2023

  • One of the ships of the Irish Ferries fleet that operates between Calais and Dover.

    Three lifeboats launched after fire breaks out on ferry in Channel

    Irish Ferries says all passengers and crew are accounted for after flames discovered in engine room

February 2023

  • A Care4Calais volunteer gives out hot drinks to refugees in Dunkerque.

    Refugee charity rejects Tory vice-chair’s claim they are ‘just as bad as people-smugglers’

  • Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union join a picket line outside the Port of Dover.

    Children returning from school trips delayed for six hours amid Calais strikes

January 2023

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    If you ever doubt the hateful effects of Tory migrant policy, go to Calais and see what I’ve seen

    Jeremy Corbyn
  • Port of Dover cross-Channel ferries.

    Dover-Calais ferries suspended due to strike in France

November 2022

  • Sudanese migrants warm their hands in a makeshift camp between Calais and Dunkirk, waiting to cross the English Channel via small boats

    A year after 27 drowned crossing the channel, migrants still suffer in Calais

    Asylum-seekers sleep rough, forge friendships and withstand harassment from police as they seek passage to the UK

April 2022

  • P&O Ferries vessels moored at the port of Dover in Kent.

    P&O Ferries suspends passenger services across Channel over Easter

    Suspension of Dover-Calais sailings adds to wider travel disruption across UK on bank holiday weekend

March 2022

  • On the ground
    Refugees in Calais: 'It's psychological warfare'

    After the Ukraine invasion, hundreds of people found themselves stranded in Calais as they tried to navigate the UK visa process. It put a spotlight on the city where many young refugees have been living outside all winter in harsh conditions, while NGOs struggled to provide the most basic services. The UK has given millions of pounds to France to try to prevent border crossings but people continue to attempt to get to Britain.  Meanwhile, the residents of Calais complain of an increasingly militarised city. The Guardian's Maeve Shearlaw and Christopher Cherry report 

  • An eight-year-old Ukrainian refugee draws in her colouring book at Port Boulogne Calais

    Gove bids to end Ukrainian refugee chaos with £350 ‘cash for rooms’ offer

    Patel humiliated after fortnight of failure, while experts warn the accommodation scheme carries risks
  • Andrii and Alla Berliuta and family

    ‘We just want to be safe’: visa waits and frustration of Ukrainians in Calais

    Refugees describe bureaucratic hurdles and uncertainty after exhausting journeys across Europe

February 2022

  • Ukranians applying for UK visas in Paris.

    Ukrainians denied entry to UK despite being eligible for visa

    British citizens trying to bring their families to the UK are grappling bureaucracy in Paris despite new visa rules

January 2022

  • A refugee sits by a fire to keep warm at a camp on the outskirts of Calais.

    Afghans risk dying in freezing temperatures in Calais, charities warn

    People who fled Taliban are starting to arrive in northern France in hope of reaching UK
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