About
Melissa Pawson is a journalist and editor. She covers migration, the climate crisis and human rights issues across Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece, the Central Med and the UK. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Independent, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye, The New Humanitarian, Syria Direct, Lacuna Magazine and Al-Monitor. She additionally works part-time as research and communications coordinator for Statewatch , and as managing editor of the Border Criminologies blog at the University of Oxford. She previously worked as editor for Beyond Trafficking and Slavery , which is part of openDemocracy . Melissa has reported on the people crossing the Mediterranean to escape torture in Libya , investigated the criminalisation of migration across Europe, broken stories about Greece using migrants to illegally push back other migrants, covered the human impact of water scarcity in conflict affected areas of Iraq and Syria and revealed how hundreds of Syrians were left trapped after be...