Art as an intervention strategy with unaccompanied minors

This book is a collective work that collects some of the research papers (in translated and expanded form) that have already been presented in the Italian version (Traverso, 2018). In Italy, UMs (Unaccompanied Minors), despite a drop in landings and arrivals, remain an urgent social and educational thought because that thought is about a fragile part of the population that lives in towns and cities alongside us. The subject discussed in these pages is not, however, the “UM”, understood as a social or juridical category, but the stories of many childhoods, experiences very far from us and from our daily reference points. The research and educational design ask questions of themselves and work within this distance, to listen, to explain, and to tell.