Recently he returned to Calais, in northern France, where hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are living in makeshift camps or derelict buildings, the majority waiting for a chance to be smuggled into the United Kingdom. UNHCR and its partner, France Terre d'Asile, provide information to them on asylum procedures in France and the UK. For several years, starting in 1999, the area was the site of the controversial Sangatte camp, near the entrance of the Channel Tunnel linking France and Britain, which housed people looking to enter the Britain. Davis spoke to UNHCR's Senior Public Information Officer in Paris, William Spindler.