To wonder this about BBC reporting of Calais?

[wasonthelist]

Before we start i AM NOT having a go at the BBC, nor dissing the people in the camp.

The BBC keeps reporting that the people don't want to go to the new area because they are worried the French will force them to apply for asylum - and that would end their dream of coming to the UK (according to the BBC).

But if they are granted asylum, won't they get a French passport and the ability to travel to the UK?

wow must be horrendous for the lorry drivers

Absolutely Larry.

I've lived in Sweden for many years. Several years ago I met a woman here from Bosnia. Initially she'd been bussed to Germany by the UNHCR so was part of a group Germany had already agreed to take. But she told me she was terrified and didn't really understand and thought it was temporary and that then she and her children would be sent back. So at the first opportunity she absconded and headed to Sweden because she'd heard that Sweden never sent women and children back. Except fleeing from a UNHCR relocation plan dropped them into a legal quagmire that took 15 years to sort out.

She told me that with hindsight they would have been better off staying in Germany but at the time she couldn't see through the fear.

IT is actually true that eventually, if you were given 'refugee ' status you could get the right to travel around the EU. However - the people in the camp may well only get humanitarian protection which would not lead to citizenship.

In fact, Angela Merkel recently said that even all the Syrians in Germany will not be allowed to stay permanently.

They are very very unlikely to get to travel to the UK at anytime.

What people don't understand is that France treats asylum seekers veyr badly - people end up homeless even when they are refugees. There is no support or accommodation for people applying for asylum, yet they aren't allowed to work.

THere are unaccompanied minors in those camps who have relatives in the UK who want to look after them - it is fucking ridiculous that they are being told to go elsewhere and apply. When you are a refugee the single most important thing you need is support in recovering and building a new life - it is obviously better that you have relatives to help youdo that.

Im sure anyone reading this thread, if their home was destroyed and they had to flee for their life, would do absolutely anything possible to reach family rather than live on the streets in a country where they know noone.