Katy Fallon is a freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece.

Katy focuses on migration at Europe's external borders and human rights violations. She has reported on people on the move in places such as Greece, Bosnia and northern France. Katy writes for the Guardian, Al Jazeera English and has presented programmes for BBC radio. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour. She was the co-winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize in 2023, the IJ4EU Impact Award 2024 and a runner-up in the migration category of the European Press Prize 2024.

 

 

Katy Fallon

Basic information

Name
Katy Fallon
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Migration and human rights violations
Country
Greece
City
Athens
Links

Supported projects

Inside Europe’s AI Border Fortress

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Technology

ATHENS -The European Union is deploying AI-driven technologies along its borders in an to attempt to control migration flows, raising legal and ethical concerns about the impact on migrants' rights. While these systems are promoted as improving efficiency and security, they have raised concerns about privacy violations and restrictions on the right to asylum, concerns that this research confirms.

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Camera at refugee camp on Samos

Disappeared in the sand

  • Migration

NIAMEY - This cross-border investigation focuses on the impact of the Anti-smuggling-Law 036-2015, introduced in Niger in response to the so-called “European refugee crisis.” 

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Prisons in Paradise

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

SAMOS-KOS - This cross-border independent investigation focuses on the newly opened “closed controlled access center” on the island of Samos. The first “pilot project of the European Union” that opened on the 18th of September 2021 and was entirely financed (43 Million Euros) by a fund of the EU-Commission, which vowed to “No Moria Morias”, after Europe's biggest refugee Camp Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos burned down last year.  

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