“…"The Jungle is not only a place where trauma accumulates. It is also a transformative space, creative of new forms of life," as Burksaytite (2018), a psychologist present during 34 our fieldwork in the camps, and I observed (Burksaytite and Pestre 2018, p. 45, my translation). Indeed, we saw in the trenches to what extent what we have described as an oppressive and desubjectivizing place paradoxically held within it attempts at rekindling life, as well as creative and resubjectivizing behaviors.…”