In the premiere episode of our new video series Borders and Beyond, we explore the complex intersections of displacement, mobility, and bureaucracy from an insider’s perspective.
Iverson Ng, Junior Research Fellow at Tallinn University and a member of the Eur-Asian Border Lab, sits down with Sigrid Solnik, Head of Programmes at the Estonian Refugee Council, to discuss the everyday realities of humanitarian work at the frontlines of border policy.
Their candid conversation takes us behind the scenes of refugee support, navigating government frameworks, advocating for human dignity, and confronting the structural frictions that shape the lives of displaced people.
This episode launches Borders and Beyond, a special interview series curated by the Eur-Asian Border Lab, the core instrument of the EU-funded ‘Advancing Trans-Regional Border Studies’ project. Across the series, individual episodes feature practitioners, policymakers, and scholars who explore what borders signify in today’s world: how they are formed, lived, and contested, and how they continue to shape mobility, identity, and power across regions.
🎥 Watch the full episode below.
