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	Sangatte
		On their arrival, the welcome service provides them with two blankets (precious commodities), assigns them a tent, or a heated cabin in the case of a family, and explains the rules of communal life: strict hours for showering in the morning and evening, no alcohol, discipline at mealtimes, and so on.
		Sangatte is a thorn in the side of the inconsistent European policies with respect to asylum seekers.
		Sangatte, where the hordes of sensation-seeking media have failed to convey a far more complex reality, that of south-north migration, founded on human distress.
	www.redcross.int /EN/mag/magazine2002_2/sangatte.html (1211 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| French exodus as refugees reduce Sangatte to war zone
		Behind the counter of Le weekend cafe in Sangatte, Claude Devos brandished a pistol and an electric cattle prod.
		Intended to accommodate 200 refugees from the Kosovan war, Sangatte Red Cross camp was born.
		As the refugee camp continues to swell in size, the local community is in danger of being destroyed.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/19/nasy119.xml (836 words)

	CNN.com - Sangatte asylum camp closes early - Dec. 2, 2002
		Sangatte has been used as a base for illegal immigration to Britain.
		The Sangatte camp is on land owned by Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel and was requisitioned in 1999 to house up to 200 people.
		Britain was angry that France had turned a blind eye to migrants trying to get to the UK from Sangatte via the Channel Tunnel while Paris argued it was Britain's reputation as an easy place to start a new life that made it attractive for asylum seekers.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/12/02/sangatte.closing/index.html (383 words)

	GISTI - Sangate - No rights, nowhere
		They visited the Sangatte camp and talked with officials there, as well as with local community groups and local authorities, such as the prefect, the state prosecutor, the chief judge of Boulogne and immigration police.
		The unanimous opinion of the prefect, the state prosecutor, the administrator of the camp and of the detention centre and the local charity groups points to solutions to a situation that is a humanitarian disaster with a legal facade.
		The Sangatte camp was opened to prevent the refugees having to live in inhuman conditions and to avoid xenophobic reactions from ordinary French people.
	www.gisti.org /doc/actions/2000/sangatte/synthese.en.html (2421 words)

	CNN.com - France and UK deny Sangatte deal - May 23, 2002
		Sangatte, which was converted in 1999 from an abandoned Eurotunnel warehouse, has been an issue of political tension between Britain and France ever since.
		The British government has called for it to be closed, as have freight companies and rail operators who are seeking compensation for the £10 million ($14.60 million) they say they have lost from having to cancel more than half their tunnel services during the last six months.
		"Refugees at Sangatte and elsewhere are human beings the same as you and me and by not addressing their humanity, we are witnessing similar scenes to the 1930s."
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/23/sangatte.meetings/index.html (612 words)

	Sangatte refugee camp to close by April 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sangatte is just half a mile from the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, and many refugees are prepared to pay traffickers to show them how to breach security measures.
		The British Government and railway executives have accused France of inadequately policing their side of the tunnel, while France has pleaded that it is unable to cope with the vast numbers of refugees crossing its borders.
		The French interior ministry asked the French Red Cross to open the Sangatte holding centre in 1999 to accommodate a growing number of refugees found on the streets of Calais and surrounding towns.
	www.blacklondon.org.uk /news/2002/20020712a.htm (599 words)

	Sangatte camp exposes brutal French and British asylum policy
		In the eyes of the British bourgeoisie, a few thousand migrants fleeing war, poverty and repression and temporarily housed at the Sangatte transit camp on France’s northern coast should be treated as an enemy, whose forces are massing as once did the armies of Napoleon and Hitler.
		Opened in 1999 by the French government and run by the Red Cross, Sangatte is a former warehouse once used for the construction of the channel tunnel.
		The immediate impulse for Eurotunnel seeking action to close down Sangatte was the extension by Labour in 1998 of the Carrier Liability Act from airlines to road hauliers.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/aug2001/asyl-a31.shtml (1693 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		Following the death of a Kurdish man on April 15, in the French Red Cross centre for migrants at Sangatte, in northern France, Red Cross Societies of the European Union (EU) are calling upon their respective governments and the EU institutions to speed up the harmonization of laws on migrants and immigration.
		The shelter at Sangatte, located near the entrance to the Channel tunnel, is run by the French Red Cross, at the request of and under contract with the French Government.
		Michel Derr, director of Sangatte, said in an interview to a French newspaper, that the migrants in Sangatte were now attempting to reach the United Kingdom via other ports along the Channel, from Dieppe to Zeebrugge.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/02/041801 (724 words)

	RTE News - Sangatte refugee camp to close within a year
		France and Britain have agreed that the controversial Sangatte refugee camp could close by April next year providing Britain implements legislation to discourage illegal immigration.
		The UK government complains that the Red Cross camp near the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel is a jumping off point for illegal immigrants travelling to Britain.
		"The Sangatte centre will close three to six months after the coming into force of new laws and policies in the UK," the two sides said in a statement after a meeting between their interior ministers in Paris.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0712/sangatte.html (216 words)

	Pressure on French to close camp - theage.com.au
		The British and French Governments are holding talks on closing Sangatte refugee camp in return for Britain accepting hundreds of asylum seekers who are trying to enter the country illegally through the Channel Tunnel.
		The pressure on Paris to shut the camp intensified on Wednesday when the European Parliament demanded immediate action to end the state of near anarchy at the French end of the tunnel, where marauding bands of illegal immigrants have paralysed the freight yards and jeopardised anti-terrorist security measures.
		Sangatte camp, which is close to the tunnel entrance, has become a source of tension between the British and French Governments.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/23/1022038455963.html (458 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Europe
		With the closure of Sangatte, they are supposed to have disappeared, vanished, ceased to exist.
		In 1999 the Sangatte Red Cross camp was set up in an unused hangar to deal with the kind of humanitarian crisis which is building again in Calais today.
		Sangatte, from being a solution, rapidly became part of the problem.
	news.independent.co.uk /europe/article334680.ece (1873 words)

	France: Closure of Sangatte camp intensifies attack on asylum-seekers
		On November 5, the Red Cross refugee centre in Sangatte, near Calais in northern France, was closed to new arrivals.
		Even whilst Sangatte was open, it had never been able to accommodate the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing desperate poverty, war, political instability and repression from across the world.
		The left would accept the closure of the Sangatte centre, and the mayor would open the small St-Pierre-St-Paul church, closed for the removal of asbestos, to refugees until November 12.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/nov2002/sang-n27.shtml (1016 words)

	Cultures & Conflits : Sangatte : Qui sont les étrangers en transit ?
		Sangatte : Qui sont les étrangers en transit ?
		André VanderlyndenLe centre de Sangatte a vu passer plusieurs milliers d'exilés et personne, hormis le personnel de la Croix Rouge qui a la charge de la gestion de ce centre, n'a perçu ne serait-ce qu'une trace de leur vie, de leur passage ; ils sont, contrairement aux bâtiments qui les abritent, invisibles 3.
		Et bien, c'est quand on peut être en mesure de comparer entre ici à Sangatte par soi même et là-bas à Dovers par quelqu'un d'autre qui a réssi à « passer », que l'on peut se faire une idée, et je précise et j'insiste, partielle et partiale, des conditions d'asile en France et en Angleterre.
	www.conflits.org /document1066.html (5300 words)

	Sangatte refugee camp \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The Sangatte refugee camp has been the focus of huge tension between London and Paris since it opened in 1999.
		Sangatte officially has capacity to house some 600 people, but up to 1,500 refugees use the camp, including Iraqi Kurds, Afghans and Iranians, many of whom live in cramped, squalid conditions.
		Michel Meriaux, the deputy director of Sangatte, said the riot was the result of growing tensions between refugees for the best places to board trains at the nearby SNCF freight terminal at Frethun.
	www.guardian.co.uk /france/story/0,11882,720821,00.html (728 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. offer to 'sort out' Sangatte - July 6, 2002
		The U.N. high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers, said the agency would be prepared to screen the 1,200 residents of the camp near Calais to assess which were genuine refugees.
		The "common sense solution would be that if there was a very good reason why they should be in the UK rather than France that could be the direction they go, but if there is no particular reason then maybe they could stay in France," he said.
		Sangatte is located near Calais, on the French side of the Channel Tunnel, and the camp is used to house hundreds of asylum seekers.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/06/sangatte.immigration/index.html?related (481 words)

	France: Growing desperation amongst Sangatte refugees
		Reports from the Sangatte refugee camp near the Eurotunnel freight terminal, on the French end of the Channel Tunnel, point to growing desperation amongst those trapped there and seeking to enter Britain.
		The refugees’ efforts to reach Britain are becoming increasingly frantic due to a combination of factors—the degenerating conditions within the camp at Sangatte, the tightening security at Coquelles and the possibility of the camp being closed by the French government at the behest of the British.
		Supporting Blunkett’s drive to close Sangatte, it concluded, “...a more effective solution would be for Britain to stop all automatic handouts to refugees.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/sep2001/asyl-s05.shtml (846 words)

	France and Britain agree to complete closure of Sangatte and tighter border controls
		In this latest in a series of meetings between the two men, the complete closure of the Red Cross camp on 30th December of this year was agreed.
		The ground-breaking deal with the French government means that the UK will be able to stop illegal immigrants before they even set off for England, and thousands of illegal immigrants will no longer be able to use Sangatte as a staging post on their way to the UK.
		Sangatte closed it doors to new entrants on 5 November 2002 (Home Office press notice 289/02).
	www.asylumsupport.info /ukbordersextended.htm (1996 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| France aims to shut Sangatte
		Sangatte refugees are guarded after a riot at the camp
		Nicolas Sarkozy said the closure of the camp - described as a staging post for illegal immigrants determined to sneak into the UK - was an "objective" because of concerns raised by both Britain and local residents.
		The Refugee Council's Nick Hardwick said that Sangatte was the "symptom not the cause" of people wanting to come to the UK.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2003399.stm (624 words)

	Sangatte
		Un enorme almacén en pleno campo, el centro de Sangatte, en el norte de Francia recibe a centenares de migrantes para quienes la Cruz Roja es el único vínculo con la humanidad.
		Sangatte es una espina en el flanco de las políticas europeas en materia de solicitantes de asilo.
		Sangatte, donde miles de medios de comunicación en busca de sensacionalismo no han sabido transmitir la realidad mucho más compleja de la emigración Sur-Norte, fruto de la angustia.
	www.redcross.int /es/mag/magazine2002_2/sangatte.html (1111 words)

	RTE News - Sangatte to close at end of December
		The British Home Secretary and French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy have confirmed that the Sangatte asylum camp is to close on 30 December.
		The camp had been a source of tension between the two countries, and had previously been earmarked to close before April 2003.
		Sangatte camp To close at the end of the month
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/1202/sangatte.html (150 words)

	imc admin \| Protest against Closure of Sangatte Refugee Shelter
		October 19th: The first cross-channel demo was held by activists from a wide range of anti-racist groups in France and the UK.
		Sangatte is due to close in March 2003.
		In contrast, demands at the demo included the continuation of Sangatte, abolition of immigration controls and borders and free movement for every one - including a group of aliens who asked for admission to the camp during the demo.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2002/10/505573.shtml (146 words)

	Observer \| Blair drafted into 'Battle of Sangatte'
		Tony Blair is to be asked by French Socialists to help defuse the 'Battle of Sangatte', which threatens to become the most explosive issue in next month's general elections.
		The camp's status as a focus for all the ills of immigration was reinforced by the violent incidents on Friday.
		The voters' verdict was a reaction to repeated violence around Sangatte in which potential immigrants to Britain have been caught up in gang fights during the nightly attempts to storm trains going through the Tunnel.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4416636-102275,00.html (645 words)

	CNN.com - Church migrants threaten suicide - Nov. 13, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A deadline of lunchtime for them to leave passed and as night fell, negotiations with the French authorities were continuing.
		In recent months the Sangatte centre had become a base camp from which migrants tried almost nightly to smuggle themselves onto Channel Tunnel freight trains and into Britain.
		The group at the church, backed by rights activists, are demanding the same treatment as 1,800 people who are sheltered at the Sangatte camp and want passes to remain in the Calais area.
	cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/13/france.sangatte (593 words)

	More than half of Sangatte refugees yet to get jobs, despite Blunkett pledge \| the Daily Mail
		Sangatte had been a thorn in the British Government's side ever since the Red Cross opened it in 1999, to provide shelter for the hordes of immigrants trying to enter the UK illegally.
		Most Iraqis passing through Sangatte at the time reached the UK and lodged asylum claims, 80 per cent of which were judged to be bogus.
		The Home Office said the closure of Sangatte in 2002 had helped to 'significantly reduce pressure on our borders', with the number of illegal immigrants arriving in Kent from Calais falling by 88 per cent from 2002 to 2006.
	www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=421709&in_page_id=1770 (1171 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Britain 'in deal to shut Sangatte' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Sangatte base has been a running sore between London and Paris administrations, with the British accusing French officials of turning a blind eye to by allowing scores of asylum seekers to use the camp as a staging post for the United Kingdom.
		Despite improved security imposed in recent weeks, Labour is determined to stop illegal immigrants at Sangatte, lured by the government’s immigration policy, from trying to board trains based at the nearby Channel Tunnel depot.
		The government considers the situation at the Sangatte centre to be very important,” he said, adding it “would have the opportunity to made a statement soon”.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=557552002 (947 words)

	Migration News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The most contentious shelter is at Sangatte, near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel or Eurotunnel.
		However, a French court refused to shut down the Sangatte camp, which is operated by the Red Cross.
		French officials say it is not the Sangatte camp that attracts migrants to the area, but British laws on immigration and asylum that migrants consider a "soft touch." On August 30, 2001, 44 migrants got into the tunnel and began to walk toward England.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /MN/more.php?id=2470_0_4_0 (1171 words)

	Migration Information Source - Sangatte Shutdown Signals New Anglo-French Cooperation
		The UK's enactment of a strict new law governing refugee asylum, immigration, and nationality on January 8 was part of a deal reached by London and Paris on the shutdown of the Sangatte emergency refugee center, which lay close to the Eurotunnel transport terminal in Calais and only 30km from English shores.
		Over the course of Sangatte's three-year existence, a giant, old warehouse acquired for it by the French government provided temporary housing for over 70,000 illegal immigrants of 55 different nationalities, the majority of them Iraqis and Afghans.
		All of Sangatte's Iraqi refugees, most of them Kurds, as well as most of the Afghans who could prove that they had relatives living in Great Britain, were allowed into the UK and given a four-year residency permit and a work permit.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Refugees/display.cfm?ID=90 (636 words)

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