ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three narratives: The experience of the boys, author's experiences, and the story of Peter Pan. It includes excerpts from the diary notes and treatment records, while working with the group. Part of the immigrant's psyche, like Peter Pan, lives in a "Neverland", a make-believe imaginary space. The goal of the group was to ease the boy's transition and integration into school and US society: Arab immigrant middle-school boys were at risk for poor academic performance, were isolated socially, and had frequent clashes with other minority students. In author's experience, the immigrant's trajectory entails an effort to assuage the pain of leaving no traces behind by creating something that can be productive in the new land and applauded in the old one. It also means that a bandana can be an all-American item as well as a token of a bond among Arab immigrant boys and their therapist.
