The number of unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy has increased significantly. Since the start of the year, nearly 2,000 underage migrants and refugees have arrived in the country without their families – nearly three times as many as in early 2022.
A migrant woman who arrived in Reggio Calabria pregnant, gives birth to twins the day after her arrival: This is Mariama's story, she is one of the 584 migrants who reached Reggio Calabria on March 11.
The number of refugee and migrant populations in Greece was 55% lower in January 2023 than in the same month last year, according to new figures announced by Greek migration authorities. However, the number of unaccompanied minors continues to raise concern.
After a decade during which more than 100,000 unaccompanied minors have arrived in Italy, the reception system for vulnerable young migrants is still inadequate, says Save the Children.
'Protect', a project promoted by UNICEF and the European Union, has been launched to benefit over 20,000 refugee and migrant children, teens, youths and women in Italy.
More than 100 associations have demanded the British government to conduct "an urgent independent investigation" over the scores of missing child asylum seekers. The children were kept in hotels which the organizations slammed as "unsafe."
A junior minister in the UK government admitted in the British parliament that "more than 200" migrant children have gone missing since July 2021, even though they were supposed to be in the care of the Home Office. 200 remain missing.
The prefecture of the Marches city of Ancona has decided where to house the migrants who have reached the Adriatic port city on board NGO-run migrant-rescue ships Ocean Viking and Geo Barents.
SOS Mediterranee estimates it could take "four long days" for the 113 rescued migrants on Ocean Viking to reach the Italian port city of Ravenna. Pregnant women, three babies and dozens of unaccompanied minors are on board.
On Christmas morning, unaccompanied underage migrants helped provide meals to those in need in Caserta, southern Italy, alongside local volunteers. The project was organized by a local church.
At least 39 Albanian child migrants have left the care of the UK authorities and gone missing in the period between January 1 and October 31 this year, according to the Kent County Council in England.
'Being pregnant or a minor guarantees you asylum in the European Union.' This is a common myth told by smugglers to people who wish to reach the EU. InfoMigrants takes a look at the facts.