The contributors address the traumatic effects of flight and migration on children and adolescents. They do this from two perspectives: by viewing the children as strangers in a foreign land and themselves as members of the majority society, whose encounters with the foreign occur in a professional context. What unites them is that they have developed an approach to the foreign that is both curiously searching and libidinous. Patrick Meurs / Gül Jullian Development consulting for families with young children from various waves of migration. Marianne Rauwald When the world of parents is shaken... Renate Wiedmann-Tipoweiler A baby searching for its mother. Heidemarie Eickmann "Germany - that was synonymous with chocolate for us." Ilgin Odag-Wieacker Difficulties in identity formation among children and adolescents as a result of their parents' migration.