“There is the desert to cross, it was hard. We can come here, take a blade, kill you because you drank the water or because you paid the bread to eat. We can tear off your money, take a blade, kill you … “ (RFI Africa, 2019). These words are those of Junior, a young...
Afghan Children in Exile
At 15, we dream of a future painted in the colors of our passions, and our desires are affirmed in the midst of the first parties, scholarly dilemmas, loves, and in inextinguishable friendships. But in Kaboul, Herat or Kandahar, for millions of teenagers, the...
Morocco’s unaccompanied minors – today and tomorrow
For several years now, the situation of unaccompanied minors has been revealing a new aspect to migration. The situation of minors is all the more worrying because their legal status is not clearly covered by domestic legislation. This is because the concept of...
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis – Another generation growing up persecuted and stateless?
The Rohingya: “the world’s most persecuted minority” The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in Myanmar (also known as Burma), have faced persecution at the hands of Myanmar military since the country’s independence in the late 1940s. Effectively denied...
Children: The Primary Victims of the Refugee Crisis
Many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are plagued by war and other troubles, which displace and endanger millions of children. They are forced to move from their homelands to European borders in order to find safety. Displaced families are often...
ITALY’S TRAGEDY WITHIN TRAGEDY: UNACCOMPANIED MINORS
In 2016, among the 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in Italy, 6000 disappeared off the radar of the Italian authorities. (Repubblica, 2016) These minors are mainly of Eritrean, Somalian and Egyptian origin, aged 10-16 years old. Unfortunately, Italy...