ABSTRACT:How do undocumented young people establish a sense of belonging when they are afraid to disclose their migratory status? And when they could be separated from the persons they love and care for? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Canada, this article explores how illegality shapes youth’s belonging. It argues that the experiences of undocumented youth, as well as the attitudes of the state towards them, must be understood as forms of “structural ambivalence.” On the one hand, I show how marginality is reproduced not only through explicit policies of exclusion (e.g., deportation, surveillance, or immigration documents), but also through laws and practices that are often silent and opaque, rendering people non-existent at a social and legal level. On the other, I analyze how youth negotiate such discourses of invisibility by forming a revocable sense of belonging. I suggest that ambivalence is not only produced by the social exclusion of young people. It is also a form of agency which enables youth to endure the risk of deportation, and to detach themselves from the disempowering conditions they are caught in.

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归属感的矛盾：非法对无证青年社会归属感的影响

摘要：当无证青年害怕公开自己的移民身份时，他们如何建立归属感？什么时候可以与他们所爱和关心的人分开？本文借鉴在加拿大进行的民族志实地调查，探讨非法行为如何塑造青年的归属感。它认为，无证青年的经历，以及国家对他们的态度，必须被理解为“结构性矛盾”的形式。一方面，我展示了边缘性如何不仅通过明确的排斥政策（例如驱逐出境、监视或移民文件），而且通过通常沉默和不透明的法律和实践来再现，从而使人们在任何时候都不存在。社会和法律层面。在另一，我分析了青年如何通过形成可撤销的归属感来协商这种隐性话语。我认为，矛盾心理不仅是由年轻人的社会排斥造成的。它也是一种代理形式，使青年能够承受被驱逐出境的风险，并使自己脱离所陷入的剥夺权力的条件。