Transterradas

<p class=ql-align-justify>This book provides a set of testimonies that bring into focus the children and adolescents who have been driven from their lands as subjects with rights who have different ways of envisioning the world. For that reason this book may be of interest to those experiencing childhood or adolescence in this way; similarly it may offer insight for those who-for professional or family reasons-are in touch with these young people including teachers psychologists parents classmates and teens counselors social workers and others. Yet within these pages the landscapes we sketch are also in some sense reflections of past atmospheres. And for this reason historians sociologists anthropologists and other scholars will also find material for academic investigation herein. As values and beliefs come into play in this book it can inform perspectives on ethics or political philosophy as well. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The relationship with others the behaviors unique to children and adolescents-and the corresponding social sanctions of these behaviors-and the relationship between public and private during this period of life could be other areas to explore. Like the indecipherable Swiss army knife the genre of this book is difficult to pinpoint. It is an essay but also a piece of literature and the discerning reader will also find historiographical philosophical and political reflections in these pages. One more book. Another book. Books are almost always an adventure and what is written therein is like a map only part of the journey. An important part no doubt but still merely a part. Experience-the true challenge-is up to the reader.</p><p> </p>