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Gemma Bird

Gemma Bird is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Liverpool and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research focuses on migration and humanitarianism.

Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability

Joanne Krus and Gemma Bird

As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.

Overcrowded camps at Europe’s borders

Gemma Bird and Ella Dodd

Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.

‘You mean the prison?’: displaced people on Samos

Gemma Bird

The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.

Voices from the borders of Europe

Gemma Bird

It’s a lot easier to ignore the plight of the refugees at Europe’s borders if one doesn’t hear their stories.