Image: Entrance to the Aida Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem, Wikicommons.
British politicians talking about forced migration often like to tell us that ‘Britain has a proud history of welcoming refugees’.
Spending time in the Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp last year I asked people there what they thought of British politicians' words. I heard one answer again and again: ‘You know Britain came uninvited to our countries, and created many problems we experience now’.
