Abstract
This chapter discusses youth and migration. Through the life story of Toussaint, who left Haiti in December 2012 and arrived in Brazil in April 2013, it elaborates on how migrant and refugee youth – teenagers and young adults – struggle to build a new life in Brazil. This means facing the challenges of inclusion after having undergone migratory itineraries, sometimes under deep humanitarian and economic tensions. It also involves how citizenship is seen, not only as a migratory status but as a process of growing autonomy and fight for rights recognition. This perspective juxtaposes with the challenges of being young in a new cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic and political context, with its own codes. Drawing reflections from fieldwork research, the authors present an analysis of the relation between personal dreams, plans and life projects, particularly through Toussaint’s first years in Brazil. The concept of “field of possibility” is evoked in Gilberto Velho’s sense, to frame such personal accounts against a larger ethnographic perspective and to reflect on his individual goals as well on what is shared with Brazilian-born youth.
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