“…With chapters discussing research from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK amongst others, this book: -contributes to the existing body of knowledge about the lives of disabled children and adolescents, with a focus on socially-created disabling factors; -provides the reader with analysis of issues affecting disabled children and adolescents according to different conceptual frameworks, national contexts and with regard to different types of impairments/disabilities; -highlights the main issues that confront disabled children and adolescents, their families and their allies in the early twenty-first century; -highlights the importance of actively listening to the perspectives of disabled children and adolescents. …”

“…A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life writing. …”

“…En los cinco relatos y la conversación con Carlos Monsivìs aquí reunidos, Pitol, Premio Juan Rulfo en México y Premio Cervantes en España, demuestra ser hijo de todo lo visto y lo soñado, pero también de la literatura misma. …”