Elisa Perrigueur is a journalist based in the Balkans since 2012 for Le Monde Diplomatique, Mediapart, La Tribune de Genève.

She focuses on energy, diplomatic and migration issues. She has been reporting on smuggling networks on the European borders (France-UK, Greece-Albania, Greece-Turkey) since 2015 and has twice received grants from the Louise Weiss Prize (in 2015 and 2018) and from the Migration Media Award (in 2017) for her investigations. She is also an illustrator. You can see her work on these following websites :

 

Elisa Perrigueur

Basic information

Name
Elisa Perrigueur
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Social, economic and political issues in Greece, in the Balkans
Country
Moldova
City
Chisinau
Links

Supported projects

After the return

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

TIRANA / LONDON – Our team reported from Albania, where they travelled to Tirana, Kukes and Elbasan to meet young people who had recently been forcibly returned from the UK after crossing the English Channel from Calais, France, in small boats.

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SOAS Detainee Support

Prisons in Paradise

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

SAMOS-KOS - This cross-border, independent investigation focuses on the newly opened 'closed controlled access centre' on the island of Samos. It is the first "pilot project of the European Union" and opened on 18 September 2021. It was financed entirely (43 million euros) by an EU Commission fund, which vowed to "no more Morias" after Europe's biggest refugee camp, Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos, burned down last year.

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