Like the founders of Project Armonia Jess and Fiona, I first came to Samos in 2018. I am an activist scholar and my work involves…

On 29 July 2021, we celebrated Project Armonia’s second birthday.  Serving over 270,000 meals and working with more than 150 volunteers from a total of…

Samos has, for many years, been viewed as an ‘emergency’ situation. As the number of people ‘housed’ in the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the island, built to shelter 648 residents, rose dramatically in 2019 and 2020 the conditions continued to get worse.

Samos is an island that has become synonymous with bordering. Like the other four ‘hotspots’ of Lesvos, Chios, Leros and Kos, since the signing of the EU-Turkey deal in 2016 the Greek island has been used as a space to hold people...