No child should be forced to leave his or her family and country to escape from wars, dictatorships and extreme poverty. Unfortunately, however, this happens more and more often. The number of refugees in the world has never been so high, and many of them are underage boys and girls, sometimes young children, who travel alone.

Every year, since 2010, Save the Children Italy has created an "Atlas" to investigate the situation of children and adolescents in Italy. In 2017, the organization decided to publish an Atlas dedicated to unaccompanied foreign minors, to have a deeper understanding of the identity, the origin and the life stories of these particularly vulnerable children.