These days, geographic mobility has become a normal standard and taken on a truly mandatory character. In our multipolar and far-reaching world, moving elsewhere is no longer a right: it has often become a real obligation.
Where young people are concerned, mobility is presented as an asset that allows one to open up to the world, to enrich one's life thanks to new experiences, to face up to and deal with otherness and, finally, to build up one's own individual characteristics. Effectively, migratory practices amongst young people are statistically significant and have tended to grow over these past decades.
In such a context, the family plays an important role and is a major factor as concerns youthful migration. An important role because it is through the resources it may provide economic, material, emotional that it supports the young on their pathway. And a major factor too since juvenile mobility leads to the separation of the generations.
This also requires readjustment of intergenerational relationships and a review, by the young people, of the meaning of their family ties and of their affiliations. Dans ce contexte, la famille est un acteur et un enjeu importants de la migration des jeunes.
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One can distinguish between several types of migration, depending on the scale of displacements concerned and the reality to which they correspond. Migrations can be intraregional, interregional and international 2. Moreover, the reasons for such migrations are numerous. Thus, juvenile migrations may be for the purpose of studying, for professional reasons, or to try out new lifestyles whether or not linked to marital life Gauthier et al.
