Riley Sparks
Journalist & documentary producer
@sparksriley
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sparksriley@gmail.com
Writing
Video & photography
The Toronto Star
: Europe is throwing open its doors for Ukrainians. For Afghans and other refugees, it’s detention and even beatings.
The New Humanitarian
: “If you’re alone and you’re Black, they’ll check you.” Racial profiling targets migrants in the EU’s free travel zone.
The Toronto Star
: “Every day we’re here, it’s the same day, the same everything.” A stopover becomes purgatory as Afghan asylum-seekers wait for Canada to process paperwork.
The New Humanitarian
: As Afghanistan recovers from a deadly earthquake, Canadian NGOs say their hands are tied by an anti-terror law that effectively bans their work.
Xtra Magazine
: Hungarian activists took on the country’s far-right PM and shut down an anti-LGBTQ+ referendum.
The Toronto Star
: Forty days to Austria — one family’s journey from Quneitra, Syria to Vienna, Austria.
The Toronto Star
: “War sucks.” Through bushes and border towns, on railways, smuggler buses and footpaths, with asylum seekers on the path to Europe.
The Toronto Star
: “If the E.U. tells me to go back, believe me, I will kill myself.” Thousands of asylum seekers wait in Greece as E.U. politicians negotiate a resettlement deal.
The Toronto Star
: “It was very, very bad here.” Along the Balkan refugee route, border politics and reflections of the region's violent past.