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Today in Focus

From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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This is the Guardian.

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Today, the Guardian reporter who came to the UK as a child refugee.

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T's and C's age and eligibility restrictions and exclusions apply. Amnamodin was a 23 year old rookie journalist when she begged to be sent on her first foreign assignment to report from the refugee camp in Calais known as the jungle.

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I'm astonished that they let me go.

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Complete like didn't have much experience reporting.

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Just kind of really went for it.

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It was the first time I had crossed the channel on a ferry, the

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first time that I had been to France, and the first major assignment that I had been given.

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I remember just feeling incredibly nervous.

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It was October 2015 and the media was full of images of desperate Syrians crossing the

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Mediterranean to try to reach Europe.

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