Freelance Investigative Journalist
Based in: Tirana, Albania
Kristina Millona is an investigative journalist based in Tirana, Albania working on topics around migration, border violence and externalization of border control. After graduating from SOAS University of London in Transnational Queer Feminist Politics, she has researched and written on the criminalization of Albanian migration in the UK, with a particular focus on the securitization of Albanian male asylum-seekers. Her current research, ‘Homosexuality, State Security and carceral violence in communist Albania’, sheds light on the ways the state sought to control male same-sex desires during the communist regime