How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains
This week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from 2024. This episode was first broadcast on 6 June
Aamna Mohdin was a young rookie reporter when she got her first foreign assignment. She was being sent to Calais to write about ‘the Jungle’, an informal refugee camp that had sprung up, made up of people hoping to cross the Channel for a better life in the UK. She was nervous about doing a good job, but as she walked around the chaotic maze of tents with people cooking on open fires, she began to feel strange and uneasy.