In ten days, I'm going to travel to the UK for the tenth time since January 2015...
...With a disconcerting facility, holding a EU passport.
In the meantime, thousands of people have been waiting, blocked in France, after risking their lives sometimes many times, to try and flee the hell from their war-torn countries, in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, with no luck.
They since had to stay and live in a non-camp, a shameful place in the north of France near the city of Calais, baptised the "Jungle" and today qualified as "hell" by a British court.
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Must read:
British journalist Patrick Kingsley went to Calais and reports:
British citizens living alongside their families in squalor of Dunkirk
In a tent city in France, two men with UK passports are prevented from coming home with their wives and children
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/31/migrants-dunkirk-british-citizens-france-tent-city-iraqi-kurds-uk-passports
The ‘new jungle’ near Dunkirk is home to 1,500 people, almost all of them Kurds, fleeing war, poverty and persecution in Iraq. Conditions are shocking, and there is little sign of a solution. But among those trying to survive we find two naturalised British citizens who have chosen to live in one of Europe’s only shanty towns because their family members have been denied entry to the UK
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/feb/01/british-citizens-living-in-europes-worst-refugee-camp-video
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More here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jun/09/a-migrants-journey-from-syria-to-sweden-interactive
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More on the journalist:
Patrick Kingsley is the Guardian’s first-ever migration correspondent, and was named foreign affairs journalist of the year at the British Journalism Awards.
His book about the European refugee crisis, based on reportage from 17 countries along the migration trail, will be published in summer 2016.
Patrick is a former winner of the Frontline award for print journalism, and is on secondment from covering Egypt.
Patrick has reported from 25 countries, including Denmark, where he wrote a travel book called How to be Danish. The New York Times said it was “fascinating”, the Wall Street Journal “delightful”, and it was a travel book of the month at The Sunday Times.
Patrick is 26, and has a first in English from Cambridge University. He is proudest of this story about one man’s journey from Syria to Sweden, as well as his investigations into bloodshed in Cairo; people-smuggling in Libya; a secret jail in Ismailia; and the gassing to death of 37 prisoners inside a police truck. And this look back at one of the bloodiest weeks in Egypt’s modern history.
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