Vulnérabilités et trajectoires résidentielles des jeunes adultes en France

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the social vulnerability of young French adults. Vulnerability, considered as both an objective and subjective phenomenon, refers to an intermediate situation between exclusion and social integration. Particular attention is paid to residential trajectories insofar as decohabitation is a central element in the process of entering adulthood. The results presented here are based on one of the only longitudinal databases that includes a section on the subjectivity of young people: the Eva survey (INSEE). Using a hierarchical ascending classification and optimal matching techniques, a typology of vulnerability and an analysis of residential sequences are proposed. They show that one of the most negatively experienced feelings of “fragility” is the inability to emancipate oneself from one's parents by leaving the family home.

Keywords

• vulnerability
• youth
• trajectories
• decohabitation
• optimal matching