Ghosts: unaccompanied minors disembarking in Italy
Where do unaccompanied minors who disappear once landed in Italy end up?
The silent odyssey of unaccompanied minors who land in Italy
For these minors there is no passage in the spotlight, they in a textbook are not even highlighted. Here is the comparison that comes to me when we do not speak of the invisibles who have less than 18 years.
By consulting themonthly report of unaccompanied foreign minors from the Ministry of Labor and social policies, we can see how in the month of August the entrances are equal to 590 of which 260 they are not traceable.
Young people we know nothing about who come to Italy from month to month and disappear without leaving traces. Perhaps Italy is not the destination so the percentage of minors who vanish are probably looking for their luck elsewhere. Working without complying with the rules of the reception center to reach other states or even worse, young people who have come across criminal organizations.
Boys and girls who arrive alone in Lampedusa after crossing deserts and seas they often become victims of trafficking or belonging to disadvantaged families who often use prostitution as a means of subsistence.
To date, around two million minors in the world are subjected to various forms of sexual exploitation, for a turnover of over five billion dollars. Only in 2016 minors who are not available are 6561, a real problem that has been denounced for years in a context polluted by not wanting to see real responsibilities.
Integration and the growth path do not go hand in hand with insertion of young people in organized structures since minors, especially in the regions of Southern Italy, end up in reception centers due to the lack of places, along with all the others. This path is destabilizing for the growth of the young person which entails a deficit at the start of his new life.
On national territory we cannot speak of the Dublin system, therefore the municipalities most affected by overcrowding, to protect the circle of minors in this case, it pushes the other regions for an equitable redistribution that goes to safeguard the case in question. In this context, the interpretation of the phenomena can only claim to be much more complex, the State must organize itself in the face of a stable and ever-increasing event or otherwise there will be the risk of building a weak cultural substrate devoid of any defense.
The widespread adolescent unease not always picked up by social and educational structures such as school will lead to the constant loss of children for which the state must seek its own responsibilities. It is essential to make them capable of giving themselves dignity without being reduced to a commodity, the institutions exist and they have to take on a huge problem like this.
The original article by Bruna Kola Mece you can read it on The Black Post
