UK-FR Border: Externalising the British Border in Calais
This study delves into the transformations happening in Calais, a port city in Northwestern France. These transformations are a result of the years-long struggle against “illegal” migration, both French and British authorities are fighting using natural environments as a “moral alibi”, it argues that nature is weaponised to mask political border enforcement as environmental management and, by externalising resources like infrastructure, capital and surveillance technology outside the UK border in the process of “securing” the UK-FR border.
Medium
Research documentation, writing, photography, interviews
Role
Author and visuals
Credits
Riccardo Badano, Helen Brewer
Institution
Royal College of Art
In this piece, I try to describe the mental image of a space first, gradually revealing the auditory ambience and then trying to find links with concepts and definitions from anthropologists and psychologists who have done influential work in the field of socio-spatial studies.