Filip Michiels (1969) is a Belgian independent journalist and works for De Standaard, Trends, Mediafin, Feeling and De Morgen magazine.

He graduated as a translator (Dutch-French-Spanish). After his studies, he started as a journalist.

Filip Michiels

Info

Name
Filip Michiels
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Economy, Migration
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels

Supported projects

Circular migration: an innovative win-win model

  • Migration

SENEGAL - Following the example of some twenty German top companies, over the past two years, a handful of Belgian companies have also joined a pilot project on circular migration for highly educated African youth. They come to work in Belgium for a few months in a company that offers them a full-fledged job, build a network here and gain a lot of business experience, after which they return to their homeland to take the lead themselves.

The Belgo-Brazilian construction mafia

  • Organised crime
  • Work

BRASILIA - Several tens of thousands of illegal Brazilians work on Belgian construction sites. They are also known as the 'new Poles'. Journalists Nico Schoofs and Filip Michiels from the magazine Vacature expose the shady business behind the exploitation of these cheap workers.

 

Trade fair - The business behind Dubai’s business prostitution

  • Exploitation
  • Trafficking
  • Work

DUBAI - DUBAI – Thanks to its strategic location, booming real estate market and especially high concentration of extremely wealthy individuals, Dubai emerged last year as the most important non-European destination for Belgian business travellers. Journalist Filip Michiels and photographer Isabel Pousset travelled to the small emirate on behalf of Vacature magazine, discovering that Dubai has a great deal more to offer the weary business traveller in the form of prostitutes. They populate the bars and nightclubs of dozens of luxury hotels, in every colour, size and nationality.