Daniel Howden is a senior editor at Refugees Deeply. A contributor to the Economist and the Guardian, he was previously the Africa correspondent and deputy foreign editor at the Independent. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/daniel-howden/rss en Economy Innovation & Technology Laws & Policy Solutions Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:30:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/18/how-borders-are-constructed-in-west-africa https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/18/how-borders-are-constructed-in-west-africa The E.U. has led an expensive and often contradictory effort to modernize African borders. Author Philippe Frowd looks at the gap between policy and outcomes. Crises & Conflicts Integration Laws & Policy Refugee Voices Solutions Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:40:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/16/looking-past-outrage-and-violence-to-see-the-border https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/16/looking-past-outrage-and-violence-to-see-the-border Coverage of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border has stirred outrage. We speak to border expert Gabriella Sanchez about the politics and policy, media coverage and meaning of these developments. Crises & Conflicts Health Solutions Mon, 23 Apr 2018 03:00:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/04/23/why-journalists-covering-the-refugee-crisis-face-moral-injury https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/04/23/why-journalists-covering-the-refugee-crisis-face-moral-injury The refugee crisis saw many journalists confronted with trauma and hypocrisy on their home turf. Professor Anthony Feinstein discusses his latest work on the effects on those involved and their wider relevance. Innovation & Technology Laws & Policy Solutions Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/04/13/a-question-of-identity-telling-stories-without-showing-faces https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/04/13/a-question-of-identity-telling-stories-without-showing-faces Since 2011, Forced Migration Review has chosen to avoid showing close-up images or faces. In the latest from our series on Picturing Refugees, editors Marion Couldrey and Jenny Peebles tell Refugees Deeply why. Crises & Conflicts Laws & Policy Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:40:00 +0000 Charlotte Alfred, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/20/expert-views-the-e-u-turkey-deal-after-two-years https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/20/expert-views-the-e-u-turkey-deal-after-two-years On the second anniversary of the E.U.-Turkey deal that curbed refugee boats to Greece, experts from Turkey, Greece and Germany weigh in on the agreement’s impact on refugees and on Europe. Crises & Conflicts Integration Refugee Voices Solutions Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:10:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/15/how-to-challenge-stereotypical-refugee-images-a-photographers-guide https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/15/how-to-challenge-stereotypical-refugee-images-a-photographers-guide In our series on Picturing Refugees, World Press Photo winner Kalpesh Lathigra shares his experience of challenging visual narratives of refugees, with advice for working photographers. Solutions Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:46:42 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/06/deeply-talks-picturing-refugees https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/06/deeply-talks-picturing-refugees In our latest Deeply Talks we explored why images of refugees and migrants are dominated by “boats and camps.” Award-winning photographer Kalpesh Lathigra and researcher Jelena Jovicic talk to our senior editor, Daniel Howden, about shifting dominant perceptions. Economy Innovation & Technology Integration Laws & Policy Solutions Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:10:00 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/02/23/root-causes-development-aid-the-false-panacea-for-lower-migration https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/02/23/root-causes-development-aid-the-false-panacea-for-lower-migration Migration is a positive side effect of development, and aid should not be spent in pursuit of keeping people where they are. Development economist Michael Clemens sorts the evidence from the politics in conversation with Refugees Deeply. Economy Integration Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:30:00 +0000 Charlotte Alfred, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/01/16/deeply-talks-inside-a-critical-experiment-on-refugee-jobs https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/01/16/deeply-talks-inside-a-critical-experiment-on-refugee-jobs In a major global economic experiment, billions of dollars in aid and concessional loans have been promised to Lebanon and Jordan to create jobs for Syrian refugees. In our latest Deeply Talks, we discuss our investigation and answer community questions on the compacts. Crises & Conflicts Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:15:11 +0000 Hannah Patchett, Charlotte Alfred, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/12/13/the-compact-experiment https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/12/13/the-compact-experiment In September 2015, as Europe veered between fear and compassion in response to the refugee crisis, the outline of a radical reform to refugee policy appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs. Its authors – Paul Collier, an influential development economist, and Alexander Betts, a social scientist and then-head of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford – proposed a pathway for Syrian refugees into Jordan’s labor market. Laws & Policy Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:05:35 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/17/deeply-talks-fallout-from-e-u-migration-obsession-rocks-libya https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/17/deeply-talks-fallout-from-e-u-migration-obsession-rocks-libya After a dramatic drop in migrants crossing the central Mediterranean, some E.U. leaders are declaring victory. Migration expert Giulia Lagana urges caution in a conversation with Daniel Howden on his recent Refugees Deeply investigation. Laws & Policy Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:43:13 +0000 Apostolis Fotiadis, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/10/greece-faces-a-rerun-of-its-refugee-winter-of-discontent https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/10/greece-faces-a-rerun-of-its-refugee-winter-of-discontent Overcrowding, chaos and a mental health emergency are set to test the E.U.’s resolve over deterring future arrivals by confining asylum seekers to the Greek islands. Crises & Conflicts Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:16:36 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/03/the-central-mediterranean-european-priorities-libyan-realities https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/10/03/the-central-mediterranean-european-priorities-libyan-realities August 14 began calmly for Riccardo Gatti. On the first morning of a new search and rescue mission in the central Mediterranean, the former yachtsman turned activist walked the grayed wooden deck of the Golfo Azzurro, a trawler that has been stripped of its bulky fishing equipment to make space for life jackets and water bottles Crises & Conflicts Laws & Policy Solutions Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:06:17 +0000 Kim Bode, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/08/16/expert-views-should-rescue-ngos-sign-mediterranean-code-of-conduct https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/08/16/expert-views-should-rescue-ngos-sign-mediterranean-code-of-conduct Refugees Deeply asked a selection of experts whether charities undertaking search and rescue in the Central Mediterranean should sign Italy’s new code of conduct. Crises & Conflicts Health Laws & Policy Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:00:49 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/07/21/politics-trumps-health-to-confine-asylum-seekers-to-greek-islands https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/07/21/politics-trumps-health-to-confine-asylum-seekers-to-greek-islands Pressure from the E.U. to cap the number of refugees and migrants allowed to leave the islands has broken the system meant to identify torture victims and other vulnerable cases. Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:03:08 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/06/13/understanding-what-syrian-refugees-want-2 https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/06/13/understanding-what-syrian-refugees-want-2 An extensive survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey finds very few of them are en route to Europe. We speak to one of the researchers who conducted the poll about what made Syrians flee, and what they want from the peace process and the future. Crises & Conflicts Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:59:05 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/13/understanding-what-syrian-refugees-want https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/13/understanding-what-syrian-refugees-want An extensive survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey finds very few of them are en route to Europe. We speak to one of the researchers who conducted the poll about what made Syrians flee, and what they want from the peace process and the future. Crises & Conflicts Wed, 10 May 2017 00:45:24 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/05/10/greece-between-deterrence-integration https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/05/10/greece-between-deterrence-integration Seven years of economic depression have not been kind to the city blocks around 17 Halkokondyli St., the office of the Greek ombudsman in downtown Athens. An alphabet soup of graffiti has been splattered across empty storefronts where “for rent” stickers alternate with ads for closing-down sales. Of the two grand squares nearby, Victoria is haunted by touts for people-smuggling gangs, while Omonia is home to a run-down hotel where stolen passports are rented to desperate migrants for $3,200 a go. Laws & Policy Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:18:07 +0000 Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/17/e-u-deal-with-turkey-legitimizes-far-right-in-europe-christopoulos https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/17/e-u-deal-with-turkey-legitimizes-far-right-in-europe-christopoulos A year on from the controversial agreement aimed to halt refugee flows across the Aegean, leading human rights defender Dimitris Christopoulos talks to Refugees Deeply about its impact in Europe and beyond. Laws & Policy Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:22:48 +0000 Apostolis Fotiadis, Daniel Howden https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/03/06/the-refugee-archipelago-the-inside-story-of-what-went-wrong-in-greece https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/03/06/the-refugee-archipelago-the-inside-story-of-what-went-wrong-in-greece Refugees Deeply investigates failures in the most expensive humanitarian response in history, which played out during the refugee crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean.