Build itself in a situation of poverty and school reentry: a biographical approach
This article presents the social challenges experienced by 10 young adults in a situation of poverty while going back to school. The analysis of each young adult’s life stories made it possible to formalize an understanding of their identity-building process by analyzing all the social relationships that constitute their life history The experience of school reentry appears, for many, as a way to fight against poverty and emancipate themselves from social relations that have inhibited the construction of their identity. This article will also identify the persistent constraints to emancipation at a time when they are seeking to enter adulthood positively while living in poverty.