“…(Leersen, 2016), and even to those identified as different, unfamiliar, and unknown. In relation to the imagological object proposed by Nora Moll, Simões (2011) argues that, in addition to seeking "relations between different cultural systems" (p. 24) and deconstructing representations of alterity and the Other outside the border, space should be created for studying the "stranger" from within, as long as this is felt or perceived as dissimilar. As Bauman (2017) contends, "strangers symbolize everything elusive, fragile, unstable, and unpredictable in life" (p. 61).…”