This research examines the place and role of navétanes, informal sports activities practiced by migrants, in Senegalese society. The aim is to understand how they have become frameworks for the integration, construction and strengthening of citizenship. In addition to the exploitation of a documentary corpus, the study was based on the analysis of discourses based on semi-directional interviews conducted with the actors of this movement in the municipality of Thiès. Faced with the difficulties of traditional settings of socialization, populations, and especially young people, find in the navétanes a place to affirm their identity. Often reduced to dependence and rarely consulted, young people see it as a way to actively participate in society. Navétanes are not only the place where ethical positions already taken are reflected, but also the place where new social ties are built.