It has much to say about political cruelty, kindness and the indomitable human spirit
AT THE back of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, beyond the Mexican caricature masks and Siberian underwear made from reindeer hide, is a small room with a big show. The first thing you see at the entrance is a hand-stencilled sign that says:Children 1496The “Jungle” here is the Calais Jungle, an encampment for migrants and refugees who, having crossed from Africa and the Middle East, eked out an existence outside the city in northern France while they waited for passage to Britain.
What might, in other hands, have been voyeurism or a piece of poverty tourism turns out to be anything but. The Pitt Rivers opened in 1884, the same year as the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa. Like other anthropology museums of the time, it subscribed to the vogue for placing human beings across the world in various categories of “us” and “them”, with Europeans sitting at the top of a supposed human hierarchy.
The “Jungle” landscapes of Calais began to emerge not in January 2015 but as far back as the 1990s, the curators say. They are still there. The official government line, in Britain as well as France, may well be that the area has been cleared. But a brief email , which an agency called Help Refugees sends the curators every month, says that on May 2nd this year there were “1,000 displaced people living between Calais and Dunkirk, over 280 of which are unaccompanied children.
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