UK/FR border crossing

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

This recording was anonymously submitted from a recent migrant to the UK, who has a partner with a job in the UK but still works in the Netherlands themselves. Here, he is passing the border and going through the passportcontrol to get to and from work. It's illegal to record at the border crossing, but this restriction makes you wonder why - why can't the public record or document what is happening in this space? What would we expose?
Going back and forth between UK and EU for work involves a lot of traveling and a lot of passport controls.
The recording at Calais was taken in the middle of the night, after having been ordered off the night bus by rude bus drivers who work for Flixbus.The recording was made by someone who avoids short-haul flights for ecological reasons. But all in all it is tiring, and expensive.
Recorded by Anonymous.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration