Marianna Karakoulaki is E-International Relations’ Articles Editor and a Director of Editorial Board. She is an award winning journalist who focuses on humanitarian reporting including but not limited to migration and forced displacement, social movements, gender and feminism. She is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham where she researches borders, violence and death. She is the editor (with Laura Southgate and Jakob Steiner) of ‘Critical Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century‘ by E-IR in 2018. You can reach her via email, and follow her on Twitter @Faloulah or Facebook. Her work can be found on her website.