Migration Routes Investigation

Journey alongside us as we document the migration routes of unaccompanied child migrants within Europe. Our investigation unveils the abuse and violence they endure during their arduous journeys. Gain insight into these vulnerable children's grim reality, falling prey to criminal gangs seeking to exploit their vulnerability.

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Forty young people who went missing from British asylum centres as children have still not been found
Migration Routes Investigation
Nina Folkerts
09 October 2026
498
Council of Europe: Adult asylum seekers are detained almost automatically at Schiphol Airport
Migration Routes Investigation
Monica Lam
29 September 2026
387
Waiting to cross the Channel in the Calais tent camps
Migration Routes Investigation
Imke Kleingeld
24 September 2026
621
The ‘green border’ between Poland and Belarus
Migration Routes Investigation
Noortje Smeltink
20 July 2026
935
Lesbos: a paradise-like Greek island overshadowed by the migration crisis
Migration Routes Investigation
Imke Kleingeld
05 June 2026
1701
Dutch captain arrested for human trafficking after his rescue vessel came under fire from Libyan forces
Migration Routes Investigation
16 May 2026
1226
Waiting day after day at Mavrovouni camp on Lesbos
Migration Routes Investigation
Imke Kleingeld
15 April 2026
1000
How São Paulo exposes Europe’s ‘false dream’
Migration Routes Investigation
Noortje Smeltink
10 April 2026
4170
Most initial asylum applications in Europe are from Venezuelans
Migration Routes Investigation
Qali Nur
27 February 2026
1770
Frontex remains silent about contact with Libya during shootings at sea
Migration Routes Investigation
20 January 2026
WikiCommons
1651
Asylum seekers detained on Greek islands, minors are also not allowed to apply for asylum
Migration Routes Investigation
Monica Lam
20 August 2025
1587
Italy continues to cooperate with Libya despite human rights violations
Migration Routes Investigation
Veronique Dijkzeul
30 July 2025
6782
4,000 unaccompanied minors move from Canary Islands to mainland
Migration Routes Investigation
Veronique Dijkzeul
14 May 2025
1937
Workshop 3: Visualizing Migration and Climate Change
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
12 December 2024
1794
Workshop 2: Ethical Reporting on Climate Migrants
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
11 December 2024
1465
Workshop 1: Unpacking “Climate Migrants”
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
10 December 2024
2277
Solidarity and fury in Lampedusa
Migration Routes Investigation
Rosa Meneses
02 October 2023
1823
Selling on the beaches to survive: "This is not a real job"
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
28 August 2023
3491
The exploitative underworld endured by beach vendors on Italy's beaches
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
28 August 2023
2656
Lost in Europe exhibition
Migration Routes Investigation
03 July 2023
2179
'Make an emergency law'
Migration Routes Investigation
Huub Jaspers
Jelle Krekels
30 May 2023
1945
Waiting lists for education
Migration Routes Investigation
Irene Hollebrandse
29 May 2023
2323
Concerns about children in the emergency shelter
Migration Routes Investigation
Jelle Krekels
Yolanda Sjoukes
27 May 2023
1951
'Abuses in reception of minor refugees are distressing'
Migration Routes Investigation
Huub Jaspers
Sanne Terlingen
27 May 2023
1971
Refugee children disappear without a trace from shelters
Migration Routes Investigation
Monica Lam
Sanne Terlingen
26 May 2023
1969
Children in asylum centres
Migration Routes Investigation
Monica Lam
Sanne Terlingen
26 May 2023
1915
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
Jelle Krekels
Monica Lam
26 May 2023
2087
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
Jelle Krekels
Monica Lam
26 May 2023
2190
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
Jelle Krekels
Monica Lam
26 May 2023
2092
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
Jelle Krekels
Monica Lam
26 May 2023
2364
Bangladeshi migrants' long journey to Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
20 February 2023
1928
Asylum seekers recruited for illegal labour
Migration Routes Investigation
Yolanda Sjoukes
06 February 2023
2116
Europes new slaves
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
18 January 2023
3078
73 refugee children and young people missing in Berlin and Brandenburg
Migration Routes Investigation
Roberto Jurkschat
16 January 2023
1595
Migration Missing In Action At COP27
Migration Routes Investigation
06 January 2023
1988
Remittance from Italy used to repay traffickers in Bangladesh
Migration Routes Investigation
Guest journalist(s)
22 December 2022
1970
The exploited Bangladeshi migrants at the heart of sicily's new food revolution
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
22 December 2022
4812
Lamin
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
19 December 2022
19968
The 18 Project questionnaire
Migration Routes Investigation
Emma van den Hof
Merel van Beekhoven
15 December 2022
2486
Support Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
Geesje van Haren
14 December 2022
5209
Moussa
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
13 December 2022
2251
Our recommendations
Migration Routes Investigation
Geesje van Haren
Qali Nur
09 December 2022
2575
Announcement: The Project 18 by Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
Geesje van Haren
02 December 2022
2114
Exhibition Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
Geesje van Haren
25 November 2022
2554
The Troubled History of Quarantine Ships
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
16 December 2021
0
How Bangladeshis are lured into slavery in Libya
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
09 December 2021
5796
Ahmed in the UK
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
18 November 2021
6081
Ahmed
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
11 November 2021
2565
First Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
09 November 2021
2504
First Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
08 November 2021
2431
Lost in Europe Exhibition and ‘UNpressconference’
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
02 November 2021
1661
Alarm Phone-Arci: "2,500 migrant arrests in 10 years charged by boat people in summary trials"
Migration Routes Investigation
Cecilia Ferrara
15 October 2021
2478
Next month: Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
12 October 2021
1397
Mixed-Media Late Summerschool class travels to Palermo, Sicily
Migration Routes Investigation
08 October 2021
2457
Ismail Einashe speaks at two events, join online
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
05 October 2021
4663
Journalists received Training on Trauma given by psychologist Kate Porterfield
Migration Routes Investigation
04 October 2021
2241
Adriana Homolova at the News impact Summit
Migration Routes Investigation
Adriana Homolová
16 June 2021
2151
International Missing Children’s Day: talkshow and interview
Migration Routes Investigation
Adriana Homolová
25 May 2021
16719
Lost in Europe's data publication became worldnews
Migration Routes Investigation
Adriana Homolová
30 April 2021
2108
Gambian migrant takes his Sicilian mother back home
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
18 March 2021
1818
Gambian migrant takes his Sicilian mother back home
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
18 March 2021
1775
Join our online Databootcamp on 11 and 12 March
Migration Routes Investigation
04 March 2021
1619
Young Senegalese more often take the life-threatening route to Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
04 March 2021
1599
‘I don’t see any future in Sicily’: How migrants have become scapegoats fo
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
Kate Stanworth
20 December 2020
1330
Postcards with photos from Ahmet Polat
Migration Routes Investigation
16 December 2020
3653
Geesje van Haren about Ahmed Mohammed
Migration Routes Investigation
Geesje van Haren
15 December 2020
5431
Khalaf
Migration Routes Investigation
14 December 2020
1796
Short documentary: 'Amadou'
Migration Routes Investigation
11 December 2020
1869
A great thanks to Betty
Migration Routes Investigation
03 December 2020
5712
Jamal
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
30 November 2020
1964
NEW: Lost in Europe on Instagram
Migration Routes Investigation
21 November 2020
1660
Advent calendar. Get yours now
Migration Routes Investigation
19 November 2020
1915
Storymap: the journey of Khalaf
Migration Routes Investigation
Joline Cramer
13 November 2020
5030
Santina
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
01 November 2020
5565
Firty
Migration Routes Investigation
Dan Archer
Geesje van Haren
15 October 2020
2070
World Day Against Trafficking - Questions and Answers
Migration Routes Investigation
Cecilia Ferrara
Ismail Einashe
28 July 2020
1674
Geesje van Haren in Emerging Stories
Migration Routes Investigation
20 June 2020
1446
Nomination European Press Prize
Migration Routes Investigation
05 June 2020
1609
About the plight of migrants stranded becauso of Covid-19
Migration Routes Investigation
17 May 2020
1627
Ismail Einashe member of Tate Etc.’s editorial board
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
15 May 2020
1673
Short documentary: 'Abdoul in Sicily'
Migration Routes Investigation
06 April 2020
1696
Short documentary: 'Mustafa'
Migration Routes Investigation
20 March 2020
3243
How children are being smuggled from Kosovo to Italy
Migration Routes Investigation
Cecilia Ferrara
28 February 2020
2342
Smugglers abuse Italian Zampa law
Migration Routes Investigation
Cecilia Ferrara
Geesje van Haren
28 February 2020
2657
Trafficked: Kosovar teenagers sent to Italy by their families
Migration Routes Investigation
Cecilia Ferrara
26 February 2020
1596
To England for a better life
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
19 February 2020
1722
How London was sold to a child fleeing war
Migration Routes Investigation
Ismail Einashe
30 January 2020
Forty young people who went missing from British asylum centres as children have still not been found
Migration Routes Investigation
09 October 2026
Council of Europe: Adult asylum seekers are detained almost automatically at Schiphol Airport
Migration Routes Investigation
29 September 2026
Waiting to cross the Channel in the Calais tent camps
Migration Routes Investigation
24 September 2026
The ‘green border’ between Poland and Belarus
Migration Routes Investigation
20 July 2026
Lesbos: a paradise-like Greek island overshadowed by the migration crisis
Migration Routes Investigation
05 June 2026
Dutch captain arrested for human trafficking after his rescue vessel came under fire from Libyan forces
Migration Routes Investigation
16 May 2026
Waiting day after day at Mavrovouni camp on Lesbos
Migration Routes Investigation
15 April 2026
How São Paulo exposes Europe’s ‘false dream’
Migration Routes Investigation
10 April 2026
Most initial asylum applications in Europe are from Venezuelans
Migration Routes Investigation
27 February 2026
Frontex remains silent about contact with Libya during shootings at sea
Migration Routes Investigation
20 January 2026
WikiCommons
Asylum seekers detained on Greek islands, minors are also not allowed to apply for asylum
Migration Routes Investigation
20 August 2025
Italy continues to cooperate with Libya despite human rights violations
Migration Routes Investigation
30 July 2025
4,000 unaccompanied minors move from Canary Islands to mainland
Migration Routes Investigation
14 May 2025
Workshop 3: Visualizing Migration and Climate Change
Migration Routes Investigation
12 December 2024
Workshop 2: Ethical Reporting on Climate Migrants
Migration Routes Investigation
11 December 2024
Workshop 1: Unpacking “Climate Migrants”
Migration Routes Investigation
10 December 2024
Solidarity and fury in Lampedusa
Migration Routes Investigation
02 October 2023
Selling on the beaches to survive: "This is not a real job"
Migration Routes Investigation
28 August 2023
The exploitative underworld endured by beach vendors on Italy's beaches
Migration Routes Investigation
28 August 2023
Lost in Europe exhibition
Migration Routes Investigation
03 July 2023
'Make an emergency law'
Migration Routes Investigation
30 May 2023
Waiting lists for education
Migration Routes Investigation
29 May 2023
Concerns about children in the emergency shelter
Migration Routes Investigation
27 May 2023
'Abuses in reception of minor refugees are distressing'
Migration Routes Investigation
27 May 2023
Refugee children disappear without a trace from shelters
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Children in asylum centres
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Children disappear from asylum shelters almost everyday
Migration Routes Investigation
26 May 2023
Bangladeshi migrants' long journey to Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
20 February 2023
Asylum seekers recruited for illegal labour
Migration Routes Investigation
06 February 2023
Europes new slaves
Migration Routes Investigation
18 January 2023
73 refugee children and young people missing in Berlin and Brandenburg
Migration Routes Investigation
16 January 2023
Migration Missing In Action At COP27
Migration Routes Investigation
06 January 2023
Remittance from Italy used to repay traffickers in Bangladesh
Migration Routes Investigation
22 December 2022
The exploited Bangladeshi migrants at the heart of sicily's new food revolution
Migration Routes Investigation
22 December 2022
Lamin
Migration Routes Investigation
19 December 2022
The 18 Project questionnaire
Migration Routes Investigation
15 December 2022
Support Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
14 December 2022
Moussa
Migration Routes Investigation
13 December 2022
Our recommendations
Migration Routes Investigation
09 December 2022
Announcement: The Project 18 by Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
02 December 2022
Exhibition Lost in Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
25 November 2022
The Troubled History of Quarantine Ships
Migration Routes Investigation
16 December 2021
How Bangladeshis are lured into slavery in Libya
Migration Routes Investigation
09 December 2021
Ahmed in the UK
Migration Routes Investigation
18 November 2021
Ahmed
Migration Routes Investigation
11 November 2021
First Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
09 November 2021
First Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
08 November 2021
Lost in Europe Exhibition and ‘UNpressconference’
Migration Routes Investigation
02 November 2021
Alarm Phone-Arci: "2,500 migrant arrests in 10 years charged by boat people in summary trials"
Migration Routes Investigation
15 October 2021
Next month: Lost in Europe exhibition in Brussels
Migration Routes Investigation
12 October 2021
Mixed-Media Late Summerschool class travels to Palermo, Sicily
Migration Routes Investigation
08 October 2021
Ismail Einashe speaks at two events, join online
Migration Routes Investigation
05 October 2021
Journalists received Training on Trauma given by psychologist Kate Porterfield
Migration Routes Investigation
04 October 2021
Adriana Homolova at the News impact Summit
Migration Routes Investigation
16 June 2021
International Missing Children’s Day: talkshow and interview
Migration Routes Investigation
25 May 2021
Lost in Europe's data publication became worldnews
Migration Routes Investigation
30 April 2021
Gambian migrant takes his Sicilian mother back home
Migration Routes Investigation
18 March 2021
Gambian migrant takes his Sicilian mother back home
Migration Routes Investigation
18 March 2021
Join our online Databootcamp on 11 and 12 March
Migration Routes Investigation
04 March 2021
Young Senegalese more often take the life-threatening route to Europe
Migration Routes Investigation
04 March 2021
‘I don’t see any future in Sicily’: How migrants have become scapegoats fo
Migration Routes Investigation
20 December 2020
Postcards with photos from Ahmet Polat
Migration Routes Investigation
16 December 2020
Geesje van Haren about Ahmed Mohammed
Migration Routes Investigation
15 December 2020
Khalaf
Migration Routes Investigation
14 December 2020
Short documentary: 'Amadou'
Migration Routes Investigation
11 December 2020
A great thanks to Betty
Migration Routes Investigation
03 December 2020
Jamal
Migration Routes Investigation
30 November 2020
NEW: Lost in Europe on Instagram
Migration Routes Investigation
21 November 2020
Advent calendar. Get yours now
Migration Routes Investigation
19 November 2020
Storymap: the journey of Khalaf
Migration Routes Investigation
13 November 2020
Santina
Migration Routes Investigation
01 November 2020
Firty
Migration Routes Investigation
15 October 2020
World Day Against Trafficking - Questions and Answers
Migration Routes Investigation
28 July 2020
Geesje van Haren in Emerging Stories
Migration Routes Investigation
20 June 2020
Nomination European Press Prize
Migration Routes Investigation
05 June 2020
About the plight of migrants stranded becauso of Covid-19
Migration Routes Investigation
17 May 2020
Ismail Einashe member of Tate Etc.’s editorial board
Migration Routes Investigation
15 May 2020
Short documentary: 'Abdoul in Sicily'
Migration Routes Investigation
06 April 2020
Short documentary: 'Mustafa'
Migration Routes Investigation
20 March 2020
How children are being smuggled from Kosovo to Italy
Migration Routes Investigation
28 February 2020
Smugglers abuse Italian Zampa law
Migration Routes Investigation
28 February 2020
Trafficked: Kosovar teenagers sent to Italy by their families
Migration Routes Investigation
26 February 2020
To England for a better life
Migration Routes Investigation
19 February 2020
How London was sold to a child fleeing war
Migration Routes Investigation
30 January 2020

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