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Europe's dreamers

Across Europe, millions of young people live in undocumented limbo, in fear of deportation from the countries they grew up in because of hostile migration policies. In this series, we hear the stories of some who dream of a future and want to speak out.

7 August 2020

  • A protest in Rome demanding the approval of a law that would give citizenship rights to migrants born or raised in Italy, November 2017.

    Europe treats undocumented children with less care than livestock

    Michele Levoy
  • Enri Canaj, Magnum

    'Never give up': Greek asylum fight is gifted student's hardest lesson

6 August 2020

  • Europe's Dreamer Rahman

    'Why can't I be legal anywhere?': exploited and left stateless by Sweden

    Rahman arrived as an unaccompanied minor. Abused and deported, his future is uncertain but his European dream intact

5 August 2020

  • David, a European 'dreamer'

    Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC

    He grew up in Brussels and dreams of a career in fashion, but hardline laws make him an asylum seeker in his own country

4 August 2020

  • Europe's Dreamer Luca

    'I just don't exist': the Italian chef Italy will not recognise

    Luca Neves was born in Rome and has always lived there, but for 12 years he has been undocumented, trapped outside hardline migration laws

3 August 2020

  • Natalia Robledo-Contreras

    'My mother was ordered to leave the Netherlands. I cried non-stop'

  • Illustration

    'We want to build a life': Europe's paperless young people speak out

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