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Dhesi, Surindar, Isakjee, Arshad and Davies, Thom (2017) Public health in the Calais refugee camp : environment, health and exclusion. Critical Public Health, 28 (2). pp. 140-152. doi:10.1080/09581596.2017.1335860 ISSN 1469-3682.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2017.1335860
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Public health, Refugees -- Health aspects -- Calais (France) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Public Health | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1469-3682 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 June 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 140-152 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09581596.2017.1335860 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 June 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 June 2018 | ||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
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