Recording of my interview with the BBC from 2nd March 2020.
Violence in the Aegean – BBC World Service Interview
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Greek Refugee Pushbacks: how to count each and every one for yourself
2020 was a year of many things. Beset amongst these manifold tragic, scary and outrageous happenings was the rise and quiet systematisation of pushbacks - or refoulement - of refugees from the Greek...
It’s time to change the way we talk about non-profits
I hate the word non-profit. It doesn’t do justice to reality. As a charity, I prefer to think of us as in the profit-making business. For good reason, too. You see, just like any other company, we...
Why Europe Must Still Act: The Aegean Islands as a Laboratory for European Border Policies
Originally posted on University of Oxford's Border Criminologies Blog Guest post by Robin Vandevoordt and Jacob Warn. Robin is Assistant Professor in Migration studies at Ghent University, and has...
Learning Across Borders: how common approaches are ensuring refugees aren’t left behind during the Covid-19 crisis
Originally posted on Comic Relief By Tanya Murphy and Jacob Warn, external Learning Coordinators, Across Borders For civil society organisations (CSOs), the challenges of working with people seeking...
Working against the grain: the vilification of NGOs in Greece
At school, representatives from charities often came to speak on Friday morning assemblies. They spoke of fairtrade products, of Herculean fundraising feats, and of impoverishment villages needing...
The Poor Print: celebrating 6 years and 50+ issues!
When we resolved to launch The Poor Print as a digital and printed paper for Oriel College in 2014, little did we know that it would become such a rich, regular and robust bi-weekly publication. 6...
Find Me – Aciman’s music plays on, a review
Since October 2017, the fictional queer worlds of Elio and Oliver from Call Me By Your Name have held pride of place as my own most personal and cultural touchstones. Back then, eager to watch the...
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