Christian Jakob: Born in 1979, studied sociology economics philosophy in Bremen and Milan; global studies in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Delhi. Editor for the daily tageszeitung (taz) since 2006, reporter since 2014. In 2017 he won the media project award together with Simone Schlindwein and Daniél Kretschmar from the Otto Brenner Foundation for the Migration Control research project, on which this book is based. In 2016 he published ‘Die Bleibenden’ (Ch. Links) a history of the refugee movement in Germany. In 2018/19 he contributed to the ‘Civil Society Atlas’ (Bread for the World) and to the ‘Atlas of Migration’ (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation). In 2019 he will publish ‘Angriff auf Europa’ (Ch. Links) a book about the international assault on Europe from the far right with M. Gürgen, P. Hecht and S. am Orde. Christian Jakob’s Twitter handle is @chrjkb.

Simone Schlindwein: Born in 1980; Eastern European studies from 2006-2008; Moscow correspondent for Der Spiegel. Based in Uganda since 2008 she has been a correspondent for the German daily tageszeitung (taz) from the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. Won the 2016 journalism award ‘Der lange Atem’ for her research into the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DR Congo and Germany and her resulting book ‘Tatort Kongo – Prozess in Deutschland.’ In 2017 she won the media project award together with Christian Jakob and Daniél Kretschmar from the Otto Brenner Foundation for the Migration Control research project, on which this book is based.