In 2017, in Sicily, the minors are 7.937. The island is the main region that hosts migrants and where 40,9% of the Unaccompanied Foreign Minors are present. The analysis proposes a reflection on the difficulties encountered by minors in the new country and on the contradictions that come from the different meaning that age, as a conceptual category and as the organizational principle of society, has for the social actors involved.
Keywords: Age; unaccompanied foreign minors; barriers; young adults; socialization.