Les adolescents de catégories populaires ont-ils des pratiques de mobilités quotidiennes spécifiques ? Le cas des zones urbaines sensibles franciliennes

Do the working-class teenagers have a specific and homogeneous use of the space outside their neighbourhood? Do they have different practices of mobility when they live in “Zones Urbaines Sensibles” (ZUS)? These questions have hardly been investigated in contrast to these teenagers’ use of the space inside their neighbourhood. Yet, in spite of a mobility potential lower than that of other teenagers, they spend a lot of time outside their neighbourhood. Among these teenagers, those residing in the ZUS experiment personal autonomy at a younger age in taking public transportation. Also, one notes a greater immobility of girls. Beyond these gender disparities, a closer look at the daily mobility reveals five predominant ways of using the space outside the neighbourhood — public transportation being part of this space. These ways are tightly linked to the nature of the relationship with that neighbourhood. These five predominant ways, influenced by social and territorial variables, depict the heterogeneity of the inhabitants of the ZUS and of the current working class.