Infâncias-Migrantes-Literatura-infantil : cometas, para interrogar o mundo e reinventar mapas.

Abstract

This dissertation is made of encounters and stories, of children, childhoods, literature and migrations. It tells stories of lives and deaths, of departures and arrivals, longings and new beginnings. It is made of memories. And it also is made of literature, the kind that we associate with children. These are stories that make up the story of what we have been calling the humanitarian crisis. A narrative of events, with well-marked cutouts and contours: contemporary migrations are regarded as those that occurred in this second decade of the 21st century; migrations refer to the international sort; and childhood is understood as the experience of inaugurating the world. It proposes to think about the humanitarian crisis, related to international migrations and refuge situations, from the experience of childhood. For this purpose, it adopts cartography as a theoretical and methodological process, and childhood as the main operational concept. Furthermore, this work discusses the molar and molecular lines that compose the discourses of the humanitarian crisis and, through childhood, it makes room for the lines of flight, establishing migrant childhoods.