This research project, entitled “Experiences of Unaccompanied Minors in an Accommodation Shelter of Athens: The Intersections of Territorial Boundaries and Age Limits”, was carried out as part of an MA dissertation written for the completion of the MA qualification Education and Human Rights at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2020-2021). It is the product of participatory qualitative research, that is the collation and analysis of primary material from one-to-one in-depth interviews with eight minor asylum seekers and refugees. This dissertation seeks to map aspects of a lesser known, different kind of “childhood”—in contrast to and in conversation with its hegemonic representation—through life narratives of minors residing in care homes for unaccompanied minors in Athens, Greece. The qualitative information is analysed according to the various tropes that emerged through the interview process. First, this dissertation highlights the diverse lived experiences of the respondents both in their country of origin, throughout their journey, and in the country of reception. Emphasis is placed on children’s agency. Then, it goes on to explore whether their behaviours and motivations constitute a political action. Finally, this thesis investigates how the minors’ dreams and hopes bring about symbolic shifts, transforming both the travellers’ identity and the territorial and symbolic territories they cross over. This dissertation confers important insights in the ways in which border crossings by unaccompanied children redefine the dominant discourse about and notion of childhood. In parallel, it contributes to our understanding of this unstable dynamic in the Greek cultural, national, and political realities of the twenty-first century.