Young People with the Right to Migrate. From the Problematization to the Recognition of the Subject

This article analyzes the rights recognized to teenagers and young migrants during the different moments of their stay in the host country and the representations and existing imaginaries about them, that are legitimized and institutionalized in political discourses, regulations and prac-tices. These representations contrast with their own narratives that reflect their agency capability, interpretation of their situation and the elaboration and execution of a life project. The qualita-tive and participative methodology used here has allowed us to collect their voice and narratives in all its complexity and richness. From their accounts, their resilience against difficult circum-stances can be observed, as well as the acts of resistance (individual and collective) that they carry out to question the means of control and to be able to face the mechanisms of oppression present in the contexts of reception. Thus, the importance of recognizing the emergence of the collective actor, which is built in the spaces of self-organization of the migrant struggle, is highlighted.