Calais’ jungla is about to be incinerated. In the second half of October, the French Government decided to disperse the thousands of migrants living in the counties of the State. The chabola can be good news to know the living conditions of this neighborhood. The eviction and dissolution of the jungle, however, is not the starting point for a policy worthy of shelter, but rather a short-term and unfounded move, led by pre-election political interests.

They have begun to abandon the jungle without culminating in the expulsion to conceal many migrants elsewhere, losing the minimal organization, infrastructure, network of relations and security offered to them by the jungle, suffering harder living conditions. However, despite the fact that France offers them a few months of “pause”, migrants know that only a minority will get permission to be there. A dark perspective for most: extortion, the threat of returning to the point of departure or the resumption of wrong life.

The states of the European Union have treated migratory flows as a security problem in recent decades. Foreigners have been seen as a lantern and their arrival must be disturbed in some way. On the one hand, they are trying to keep the problem out of their borders, before with Libya or Morocco, at present agreeing with Turkey that, in exchange for certain advantages, they should blunt immigrants. On the other hand, within their borders, they retain, collect, disperse, move, stop, expel migrants, that is, they organise a real hunt.

In France for a long time, the largest number of migrants have been on the North Coast, where those who want to go to England are blocked. On the verge of the flow of trains, trucks and ferries heading there, the camps and skuats have been installed every night at all costs to try to cross the sea. Border closures have never stopped the misery, repression, war and today, increasingly fugitive of climate change. It does not solve the causes of migration, but it aggravates the consequences, multiplying the risks, feeding the traffic, creating embarrassing situations.

In order to improve the situation of migrants, we should abandon the discourse of the National Front (FN), which has polluted the entire political arena for years, change the conception of the migrant, assess the economic and social opportunities of the problem, prioritize respect for fundamental rights and humanitarian values... We are not at all, and in view of the forthcoming French election campaigns, the main French political forces have begun to use emigrants as usual ghosts.