Euro-orphan

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Euro-orphan or EU orphan[https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Romania/Romania-the-EU-orphans-150351 Romania, the EU orphans] is a neologism used metaphorically to describe a "social orphan" in the European Union whose parents have migrated to another member state, typically for economic reasons. The child is left behind, often in the care of older relatives. The expression itself is a misnomer since it is meant to describe temporary child abandonment rather than the death of both parents. A similar name is White Orphans.[https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Romania/White-Orphans-the-enlargement-s-children-77630 White Orphans, the enlargement's children]

Such abandoned children may require therapeutic or psychiatric care to cope.{{cite journal| pmid=23214399 | volume=46 | title=[The Euro-orphans phenomenon and the courses in therapeutic work and psychiatric treatment--a case study] | year=2012 | journal=Psychiatr Pol | pages=295–304 | last1 = Nowak | first1 = M | last2 = Gaweda | first2 = A | last3 = Janas-Kozik | first3 = M| issue=2 }} The EU supports family reunification.[http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/legal-migration/family-reunification/index_en.htm Family reunification] Migrating families are sometimes divided by local child services like Jugendamt.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rogalinski.com.pl/a-child-has-to-be-german-and-right-now/ |title=A child has to be German and right now! |access-date=2015-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219100440/http://www.rogalinski.com.pl/a-child-has-to-be-german-and-right-now/ |archive-date=2014-02-19 |url-status=dead }} The number of Euro-orphans in the EU is estimated to be between 0.5–1 million, most of whom live outside the EU, e.g. in Ukraine.{{Cite web |url=http://iamkuba.no/?page_id=280 |title=Facts about Euro orphans |access-date=2017-09-14 |archive-date=2017-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914174026/http://iamkuba.no/?page_id=280 |url-status=dead }}

A similar term, "old euro-orphans", describes elderly parents left behind by migrants.[https://www.academia.edu/3777338/Old_Euro-orphans_Migration_of_Adult_Children_and_Social_Security_of_their_Elderly_Parents Old “Euro-orphans”? Migration of Adult Children and Social Security of their Elderly Parents]