Identity pluralization and identity reassignment: Research as a process of activist and political engagement

This article focuses on the emergence of the generally invisible point of view of young people leaving care, through participatory research on the transition to adulthood. It focuses on the process of identity pluralization at work in this research, in connection with an evolution of the division of labor between researchers and co-researchers, with the latter learning new roles within the investigation, but also outside it, leading them to build collective mutual aid organizations, alongside a commitment to the legislative debate. This article is also interested in the risk of identity reassignment, with peer researchers constantly brought back to their identity as young people in care, and researchers recalled to their traditional task of writing.