What will happen to the Calais Jungle migrants when the camp is demolished?
THE process of demolishing the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp started on Monday, with thousands of migrants being moved from the large-scale refugee camp.
Over 8,000 people who have been living on the site near the French port of Calais are being moved as the campsite is destroyed.
But how many people need to be moved, what will happen to them and where will they go?
What will happen to the Calais Jungle migrants when it is demolished?
They are being placed in temporary accommodation across France, where they will be able to begin the process of claiming asylum or face deportation.
Unaccompanied children are being taken to "provisional reception centres" within the camp.
Crews started dismantling the jungle with sledgehammers yesterday and more than 4,000 people have already been moved.
Migrants are being placed into separate queues of families, lone migrants and vulnerable people.
After being processed at points throughout the camp they are being bussed out to various asylum centres in France – there are 167 new asylum centres across the country with room for 7,500 people.
Some of the locations have been named including centres in Haute Savoie, Haute Loire, l’Isère, Drôme and Saône et Loire. These are rural places and will house between 100 and 300 migrants.
At their new destination they will be given the opportunity to claim asylum else risk being deported.
Unaccompanied children will remain in Calais inside purpose built container cabins in the Jungle, where they will be assessed for eligibility to come to the UK.
A demolition team started destroying the mass refugee camp yesterday, tearing down wooden shacks and using diggers to move away debris.
The Calais police commissioner says the camp will be fully cleared by Friday.
However, concerns have been raised for unaccompanied kids by charity Save The Children.
They say hundreds have been unable to register to stay in the provisional shelters in the camp and have nowhere safe to go during the demolition.
How many migrants will be moved from the Calais Jungle?
Charity Help Refugees said the camp's final population ahead of its demolition was 8,143.
Officials say 4,014 migrants have been taken away over the past two days and 372 children taken to temporary accommodation within the camp.
However, French police expect there to be some resistance, predicting that 200 people will attempt to stay on the site.
Christian Salome, head of the Migrant Shelter charity, said: “They do not want to leave,” and will continue with their “dream of England”.
He added: “Right now the operation is going well because they are people who were looking forward leaving.
‘But we’re more worried about the end of the week, when there will be people who do not want to go, and who continue to want to get to England.”
A spokesman for the French interior ministry said it “does not want to use force but if there are migrants who refuse to leave, or NGOs who cause trouble, the police might be forced to intervene”.
Will migrants be coming to the UK when the Calais Jungle is demolished?
There has been no confirmation than any other refugees from Calais, apart from children, will be coming to the UK as a result of the camp being destroyed.
Almost 200 children from the camp have been brought into the UK, some under the "Dubs" amendment to the Immigration Act.
This allows particularly vulnerable children, including girls and those under 13, to stay in Britain even if they don't have family here.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has insisted no children beyond those eligible will be given a home here and that Britain will take in around 650 unaccompanied children from the Jungle.
Delivering an urgent statement in the Commons on Monday she said: “Through this process it is important we do not encourage more children to head to Calais, risking their lives in the hands of traffickers.
“That’s why we will only consider those present in the camps before the start of clearances of the operation today.”
Sylvie Bermann, France’s ambassador to the UK, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme there are 600 minors waiting to be processed in the hope of coming to Britain.
She said: “It’s impossible for the French to know if they really have families in the UK. So we gave the list to the UK Government and now they will have to process.”
The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres carried out a survey in May which found 82 per cent of the roughly 6,000 refugees in the camp at the time were aiming to reach Britain.
Desperate asylum seekers have been run over, hit by trains, and drowned in the Channel in their desperate attempts to reach the UK.
If a refugee does make it to Britain decisions on their asylum and human rights claims are made they UK Border Agency.
When an asylum seeker makes an application they must show well-founded fear of prosecution due to their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion in their homeland.
The must also prove they are unable to seek help from the authorities in their own country.
A person can also claim asylum in the UK if removing them would be a breach of their human rights.
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