Calais Jungle - Behind the name

According to the local activist NGO, Calais Migrant Solidarity, the name "jungle" is a translation of a Pashto language word "dzhangal" which means forest and was how Pashto speaking migrants and refugees referred the Calais "jungle" and other shanty towns during the mid-2000s.

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