Fragment of a fieldnote vignette , Garland 2021
One night at the end of March 2021, I was thinking about how I could continue my research in The Dzjangal without having to travel on site, as the pandemic was still ongoing at the time, although the vaccination program was already showing results and quarantines and lockdowns were being eased. Nevertheless, I didn't know what I would find on the streets of Calais. Together with my supervisor Römhild, we decided it was best to postpone the trip until April 2022 and continue the research in an online format. I began my anxious search on the internet, the only medium available to me at the time to find out about the current situation in the settlement. My initial search was chaotic and without clear direction; instead, I scrolled and scrolled through the 50+ pages of Google search results related to "The Jungle". On page 25, I finally came across something that could be a good start, a possibility. It was Jungala Radio that made me stop my search, an incredible radio archive made inside The Dzjangal that was surprisingly still online on the open and accessible platform Soundcloud. This finding was the beginning of a digital/online ethnography. This digital modality, enforced by the uncertainty of the pandemic, helped me to familiarize myself with the active listening of an almost forgotten online archive of the inhabitants of the Dzjangal.

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Jungala Radio was a community-run digital radio station based inside The Dzjangal in Calais. was founded between 2015 and 2016. The volunteers offered training in digital community radio to the residents of the place. The premise of the project was to give access to a digital and social space where participants could develop to the point where they had complete editorial control over the content they created. Jungala Radio was a digital community that used social media networks, open-source software and digital tools to allow The Dzjangal residents to create their own digital stories, challenging the dominant narratives of mainstream media. Jungala Radio station was named by a 12-year-old who resides in the settlement. She learned how to use digital tools to broadcast her own digital podcasts. "The jungle is where animals and insects sleep, and we are not animals," she remarks. "La" means "No" in Arabic; hence the name Junga-La – Jungle No!" (Jungala Radio, 2016).