In my opinion the residents at Calais would be well advised, and should be advised, to put in a claim for asylum in France BEFORE eviction takes place. Not wishing to rub anyone up the wrong way, their well being should be placed before activists looking good in indimedia.

Do you think honestly that migrants themselves wouldn't have thought of claiming asylum in France if it was a safe option for them . Apart from the fact that asylum claims in Calais region are hardly ever accepted , most cannot claim asylum because of the Eurodac trap .
So they will be sent back to Greece or Italy where nochance of asylum at all !!

How good of you to decide what the best option for someone else's life is. Remind me to make those decisions for your own future...
First of all, claiming asylum in France is NOT automatic, will lead in most cases to refusal and deportation to the country where many will face continuing persecution and death. There have been many cases of returned mgrants 'disappearing' or where we know for certain they have been murdered. If, as is the case for many there, migrants have already been arrested and fingerprinted in Greece, they are basically fucked. They will be deported to Greece, held in what international human rights groups have named as really appalling prison conditions and eventually deported without any examination of their situation (Greece turns down 99% of applicants). Claiming asylum will bring previous arrests to light (because of the Eurodac data system) and France can wash their hands of these people.
Secondly, if you did manage to get asylum in France, you cannot then live with your family and friends in the UK. Try thinking about that for a second. You may have lived and worked there, speak the language well, gone to school there, before being suddenly seized and deported. Many are simply trying to get home! Claiming asylum in another country effectively closes that chance of ever returning.
Finally, you make some daft point about activists looking good in Indymedia! I don't know of any No Borders activist I've met over in Calais who felt anything but shared suffering and huge frustration at the degradation that border controls inflict on human beings. There are small triumphs when CRS police are prevented from beating up someone or rumours are heard of a migrant's success, but no self-satisfaction. Perhaps that's why most No Borders people sign themselves as anonymous or No Borders rather than putting their names to their actions...