Security is no accident: considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais

English, Claire

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“…In many instances since Resurrection City, the provision of care in all its forms in protest camps has also been experienced as a massive challenge (English 2017). Addressing participants' needs and desires for life is a highly political but also a very practical challenge for any SMO.…”

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The Role of Spatial Organization in Resurrection City and Other Protest Camps

Frenzel

2020

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Social and political organizing and organization has a spatial dimension, and there is increasing interest in academic studies of organization to understand better how space and organization relate, interact, and conflict. There is a range of studies that look at business and workplace organization, but little evidence from social movement organization or what is sometimes referred to as alternative organization studies. This article addresses this gap by observing and analyzing the effects of spatial organization in social movements. It focuses particularly on protest camps, a form of social movement organization in which spatial organization is particularly important. It looks at the Resurrection City protest camp of 1968 to identify the development of spatial organization practices. They are carried onwards across social movements, as they resolve organizational desires for the social movement organization, such as enabling mass organization without resorting to formal membership or hierarchical structures. In summary, the article provides insight into the relationship between spatial and social organization.

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The Role of Spatial Organization in Resurrection City and Other Protest Camps

Frenzel

2020

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“…And since October 2016 each temporary 'Jungle', before it is destroyed, has to some extent come to represent a 'performance' of safety that cites and recreates what was offered at a different scale by La Lande (Hagen, 2018). This forms part of long-term practices of resistance that stretch back before the creation of Calais Migrant Solidarity activist collective at the end of the Calais No Borders protest camp in 2009 (English, 2017) and forward past the L'Auberge des Migrants Marche Citoyenne pour l'Accueil des Refugies from the Franco-Italian border at Ventimiglia to London via Calais in 2018. Just as irregular travel is a necessary geography for those wishing to seek asylum in the UK, so these temporary permanences represented material forms of irregular time.…”

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Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond

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Mallet²

2019

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Security is no accident: considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais

Cited by 2 publications

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The Role of Spatial Organization in Resurrection City and Other Protest Camps

The Role of Spatial Organization in Resurrection City and Other Protest Camps

Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond

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