Gemma Bird
Dr. Gemma Bird is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Liverpool. She is part of the IR_Aesthetics research project and works on migration along the Balkan route(s).
From Rome to Athens, squatting is under attack
In July of this year New Democracy came to power in Greece with a promise to crack down on immigration and the networks of solidarity surrounding refugees. In the last few weeks they have started to put this process into action suggesting that they are ‘cleaning up Exarcheia’, evicting… »
Changing vulnerabilities on Samos: Why young men are not always the least vulnerable refugees
Men between the ages of 18 and 39 are often assumed to be the most likely to survive troubling conditions in refugee reception centres. Drawing on recent research on the Greek island of Samos, Gemma Bird highlights that this is now always the case. Vulnerabilities are not fixed, and in environments… »
The best and worst of humanity, side by side in Samos
There is an island in the South Aegean Sea that, until a few years ago, was known only as a tourist destination, then it was the ‘Hotspot’ or Refugee Reception Centre that got ignored, and then, of late, the media arrived. The media arrived to tell the stories of the… »
Documentary: UBI, our right to live
Film: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons
2nd World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Milagro Sala
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
