BorderStat is built by a small core team and hundreds of volunteers around the world. If you care about honest, evidence-first reporting on migration, borders and human rights, there is a place here for you — whatever your skills or spare time.
Contribute from anywhere in the world. Everything we do is online and asynchronous.
Give as much or as little time as you can. A few hours a week genuinely makes a difference.
Join a project with no political owner and no commercial agenda — just the facts.
Build skills in data, research, writing and verification alongside an international team.
These mirror the real work behind the site. Don’t worry if you only match part of a role — we train, pair you up and start you small.
Spot, summarise and write up developments on migration, borders and related policy. You keep our news section current, accurate and readable.
Help verify and update our database of facilities and converted places of worship — confirming details, contacts and current status.
Track, log and verify reported hate-crime incidents into our moderated database, handling difficult material responsibly and without sensationalism.
Gather, clean and reconcile official statistics so every figure on BorderStat stays traceable and comparable. Turn messy sources into clean numbers.
Dig into open sources to confirm facts, find primary documents and support our investigations and verification work.
Help make BorderStat readable in more languages. We publish in several and always need native speakers to translate and review.
Advise on data requests, takedown notices and compliance so our open, non-commercial work stays on solid ground.
Not sure where you fit? We can almost always use another careful pair of hands. Tell us what you are good at and what time you can give.
Choose a role above — or tell us you’re flexible. There’s no wrong answer.
Email us a few lines about yourself, the role you’re interested in, your languages and roughly how much time you can give.
We reply, answer your questions and pair you with someone so your first task is easy.
Fill this in and we’ll get back to you by email. Nothing is published — it comes straight to our team.
Some of our work — especially monitoring hate crimes — can involve difficult material, and our project is sometimes targeted. We take your safety seriously: you decide how visible you are, we never publish volunteers’ personal details without consent, and sensitive roles come with guidance and support. If anything ever feels wrong, you can step back at any time.
Whether you can give an hour a month or a day a week, you can make BorderStat better. We’d love to hear from you.