UNICEF said that in the first three months of 2019, 3,800 children arrived in Europe by sea and that one in every four migrant arrivals was a minor. In 2018, the figure was one in every five arrivals.
Almost 80,000 migrants and refugees were detained by Turkish authorities in the first four months of 2019 while trying to illegally cross borders to Europe.
The UN refugee agency's Vincent Cochetel has said that the distribution of refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia needs to be improved - in order to prevent a "concentration of traumatized people in the same space."
Bosnian Security Minister Dragan Mektic said about 70,000 migrants are ready to depart Greece for countries in western Europe. The situation concerns Bosnia because many of the migrants may attempt to reach Europe through the Balkan route.
The Turkish interior ministry said they apprehended around 268,000 undocumented migrants in 2018. The ministry also released estimates for how many Syrian refugees have returned home: roughly 310,000. But more than ten times as many Syrians remain in the country.
Less than one Italian in three thinks that migrants are positive for the country, a percentage that is lower than the world average, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum.
In 2018, more than 5,000 Tunisians left their home country for Italy alone. A new study found that Tunisia experienced a new peak of irregular emigration starting in the second half of 2017.
Just over 23,000 migrants arrived in Italy in 2018. Between 2014 and 2017, yearly arrivals were between 120,000 and 180,000.
The number of undocumented migrants apprehended at Italy's border with Slovenia in 2018 has more than tripled compared to the previous year, according to police officials.
The number of expulsions and forced repatriations of undocumented migrants in Spain has risen significantly in 2018 compared to the previous five years.
68.8 million people around the world have been forced from home, among them 25.4 million refugees. The number is on the rise, as the UN refugee agency UNHCR reports, but fewer refugees are arriving in Germany.
Half the refugee population worldwide are under 18, Caritas reports. 300,000 of these children and teenagers are without their families.