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Ten years after the Calais 'jungle' was dismantled, migrants still wait in makeshift camps hoping to reach Britain

Ten years after the Calais 'jungle' was dismantled, migrants still wait in makeshift camps hoping to reach Britain
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Since the 2016 dismantling of what was then Europe's largest shantytown, a scattering of small camps hidden in woods and scrubland has sprung up along France's northern coast, where aid groups describe squalid living conditions.

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