 For some families, the last time they see a loved one is watching them live to start on your life in another country. When a family stops hearing from their relatives, they begin a painful search for information that can take years or a lifetime. Not knowing if their loved one is alive or dead is devastating. Clinging on to hope makes it impossible to start grieving. Few families of missing migrants know where to look or who to ask for help. And many struggle with administrative and legal obstacles. Those searching who are migrants themselves may have uncertain migration status, face precarious living and housing situations, or be traumatized by their own journeys. Even if they manage to find help in one country, poor international cooperation means there is little information shared about migrants who are unable to contact their families or who have lost their lives. Even when remains have been recovered and names are known, families of missing migrants may not be notified. In the last six years, more than 40,000 people have disappeared on migration journeys. Most of their families don't know what happened to them.