From the investigative team: According to Europol’s chief of staff, Brian Donald, no fewer than 10,000 migrant children have gone missing in Europe. It is feared that some of them fell in the hands of drug gangs, human traffickers, or were sold into the sex industry. Others may have travelled to family or friends in Europe without reporting it. They have all but disappeared.
The plight of unaccompanied child migrants is one of the most pressing issues in the migrant crisis. The goal of Lost in Europe is to recover the stories of these missing children. It comprises a team of investigative journalists from the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and the UK, who are collaborating to find out what has happened to the disappeared children in Europe.
Supported by news organisations, such as BBC Radio 4 News, VPRO, De Standaard, Small Stream Media and Il Fatto Quotidiano this investigative journalism project will shine a light on wrongdoing and tell the stories of disappeared child migrants in the EU. Visit the project’s website.
Published stories:
- Hundreds of trafficked children ‘lost’ by local authorities (The Guardian, Dec. 15, 2018)
- Oltre il confine chiuso da Parigi, “Sono arrivati in 7.400 in 18 mesi” (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Jan. 9, 2019)
- Viaggio a Claviere, tra i migranti che passano il confine (Lettera43, Jan. 12, 2019)
- Tientallen Vietnamese minderjarigen verdwenen uit opvang (NOS, Nov. 6, 2018)
- Revealed: Vietnamese children vanish from Dutch shelters to be trafficked into Britain (The Guardian, Mar. 30, 2019)
- Tientallen Vietnamese kinderen verdwenen uit beschermde opvang (NPO Radio 1, Mar. 30, 2019)
- Veel kinderen verdwijnen uit opvang (NRC, Marc. 29, 2019)
- NOS news segment (NOS, Mar. 30, 2019)
- Niewsuur segment (NPO Niewsuur, Mar. 30, 2019)
Project blog:
- Weekly project blog (Small Stream Media)
Project vlog:
- Project vlog 1
- Project vlog 2
- Project vlog 3
- Project vlog 4
- Project vlog 5
- Project vlog 6
The information on this page is supplied by the investigative team. The IJ4EU fund partners are not involved in the editorial process of any funded project.