Data provided by UNHCR indicates that as of September 13, 2022, 7,278,696 Ukrainian refugees had reached various European countries, and more than 4 million of them had already received a Temporary Permit or another form of protection. A significant portion of them moved to countries close to Ukraine: more than 1.3 million were registered in Poland, while more than 90,000 settled in Slovakia and Moldova.
Nonetheless, the Ukrainian diaspora has affected all of the European nations: more than 1 million refugees were recorded in Germany, and at least 665,800 of them asked for temporary protection; the Czech Republic received 431,462 refugees, and almost all of them held a temporary protection permit. In Italy, by September 13, 2022 UNHCR registered 159,968 refugees, and 153,664 of them obtained temporary protection status.
In this essay, after providing some data regarding Ukrainian families and minors who fled their country after the Russian invasion and moved to Italy, we will focus on the extraordinary effort made to improve reception programs, on the peculiar condition of minors who reached our country accompanied by adults who were not their parents, and finally on the experience of placing these fleeing families into Italian households.
