Chloé MORHAIN, Université de Lyon , France
Student populations are often identified as strategic because they appear to be in transition from youth to adulthood (Cuney, 2004; Cicchelli et Erlich, 2000; Coulon, 2017). They are also key audiences for metropolitan policies, which seek to fix them in local territories as a qualified workforce after university studies (Talandier, 2015; Dang Vu, 2011).
Beyond the treatment of students through metropolisation, they are now being addressed in social justice work, particularly since the health crisis of 2019. The media coverage given to the students was very strong in the French media, highlighting issues of isolation and extreme precariousness, which although not new, were discovered by the general public and the authorities. Moreover, some scientific studies are already pointing to the impacts of the crisis on isolation, mental health or academic success (Joro, 2021; Roux et al., 2020; Noûs, 2020) From this media treatment and the scientific literature, we can ask ourselves what are the daily practices of these precarious students? What picture can be painted of their student life? How have they been specifically impacted by the health crisis?
Using a participant observation approach in a food aid association for students, we conducted a survey of some twenty student beneficiaries in the winter of 2021-2022. These qualitative, semi-structured interviews address several themes of daily life: housing, mobility, paid work, consumption, integration into student life and the impact of covid. The question of student populations through social and spatial justice thus takes on its full meaning, insofar as the precariousness of these groups is plural and therefore difficult to capture without qualitative approaches.
Mots clés : Student|Social justice|Precariousness |Covid|Lyon
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