Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Refugee Heritage: the Archaeology of the Calais 'Jungle'

Sarah Mallet School of Archaeology and Louise Fowler Museum of
London Archaeology give a talk for the Knowledge Exchange Showcase
on their research on the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle.
Sarah Mallet, School of Archaeology Dr Sarah Mallet is a
post-doctoral researcher at jointly appointed at the Pitt Rivers
Museum and School of Archaeology in Oxford. Her current role
consists in researching the visual and material culture of the
Calais ‘Jungle’, and she is one of the co-curators of the major
temporary exhibition ‘Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and beyond’ on
display at the Pitt Rivers Museum until November 2019. The project
has developed new approaches to contemporary collecting in
impermanent spaces and uses the principles of archaeological
methodology to understand and record the lives of undocumented
people in the present. With a multi-disciplinary background,
including medieval history and scientific archaeology, her current
research on this project has focused on borders and migrations, as
well as the history of camps in Northern France in relation to
contemporary events. She is the co-author with Dan Hicks of the
book ‘Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and beyond’ published by Bristol
University Press in May 2019.