Menores extranjeros no acompañados y separados en Italia: vulnerabilidades del sistema y recorridos de agencia

Abstract

In Italy, the presence of unaccompanied and separated migrant minors continues to be a target group for social care with specific characteristics and needs that are not always adequately addressed, especially when they reach the legal age of majority. Political restrictions make it difficult to achieve an adequate level of autonomy and significantly compromise social inclusion, increasing the risk of turning them into mere executors of an unwanted project in which they are excluded as actors in their own future. The results of an analysis of the state of the art and the fieldwork carried out through the saama project in Agrigento (Sicily), during the years 2019-2022, are presented. The objective is, from an intersectional approach, to rethink the tools implemented in reception services to build new social management options through simultaneous and convergent attention between the meso perspective and the micro perspective.