InfoMigrants
By
Charlotte Oberti
Published on : 2021/04/23
More than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant minors have gone missing in Europe in the past three years, an investigation has found. Adriana Homolova from the journalists' collective Lost in Europe says that number is far too high.
Between 2018 and 2020, more than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant children disappeared in Europe, according to data collected by Lost in Europe in 31 countries – including in the European Union, Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Moldova. Although the data was often incomplete, and in some cases absent altogether, the confirmed number of missing migrant children remains astonishingly high.
According to the journalists’ partial findings, Italy ranked the highest in the number of recorded disappearances, with 5,775 missing migrant minors, followed by Belgium with 2,642, Greece with 2,118 and Spain with 1,889.