
hope barker
@hopeameliee
independent scholar fellow (2024-2025) @_ISRF
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13-01-2013 21:18:13
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Meloni’s Albania deportation experiment has failed. Read more about it from Ilaria Salis ⤵️ euobserver.com/migration/ar6a…

For the past year, The New Arab has been looking into Cyprus’s Voluntary Return Program, which is meant to support individuals who want to return to their home country “in an organised, safe, and dignified manner”. But our investigation, led by hope barker & Anas Ambri, reveals

One year in the making, but it's finally here. An investigation with .hope barker that looks into a new inexpensive way Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών has found to dispose of Syrian asylum seekers in Cyprus. Coming up this Monday on .The New Arab


One year in the making and Anas Ambri and I's investigation into coerced "voluntary" returns in Cyprus has finally dropped. Read it to learn more about the EU's flagship deportation regime: newarab.com/investigations…

Cyprus has been unlawfully detaining Syrians for years. With the EU’s support, it started deporting them too. We reveal how in our latest exclusive investigation, co-published with Statewatch & UntoldMag ⬇ ✍ Anas Ambri & hope barker newarab.com/investigations…

€1,500 and a one-way ticket to Damascus. This is how Cyprus is deporting Syrians from the country, under the guise of voluntary returns, with European Commission's financial support, and help from Frontex' return specialists. With .hope barker: newarab.com/investigations… A 🧵

With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections. An investigation by hope barker, Anas Ambri in collaboration with The New Arab and Statewatch untoldmag.org/trapped-detain…








.Nicoletta Charalambidou writes about how "voluntary returns" of Syrians from Cyprus are neither voluntary nor dignified for University of Oxford's Border Criminologies' blog: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino… Also mentions the investigation by hope barker and I into that very same scheme



"Mo Chara’s real problem is that the message he put out landed. Working-class people aren’t meant to speak like this, organise like this, or connect struggles across borders like this. That’s what scares them. While Mo Chara stands in the dock for allegedly waving a flag, those
