INTERVIEW
The students continue their mobilization to denounce precariousness. A call to demonstrate on Tuesday to ask the government for an emergency plan has been launched. It is in this context that the Jean Jaurès Foundation publishes a study on youth: "young people from the cities, young people from the fields: the class struggle is not over". Salomé Berlioux, president and founder of the Chemins d'avenirs association, talks about the conclusions of this study.
"The housing issue is central to students"
20% of students live below the poverty line. Alarming numbers. And the study "young people from the cities, young people from the fields" highlights the inequalities of situation between students related to the geographical location of the parents' home. "One out of two families in rural areas can not afford housing for their child to continue their studies in the city", quotes Salome Berlioux as an example. This is not insignificant, given the importance of the housing criterion at the time of the continuation of studies question. "The question of housing is central for students, at the junction of financial and geographic issues," said the president of Paths d'avenirs.
"Young people in rural areas and small towns face a combination of obstacles"
For Salome Berlioux, and in view of this study, geographic determinism must be considered as a subject in its own right, when considering student inequalities. "This study shows that social determinism still exists, and that social determinism can be added to a geographical determinism," she says. The founder of Paths of the Future lists a number of direct consequences linked to geographical determinism: "lack of networks, lack of access to information, lack of extra-curricular practices, relationship to biased ambition". "Young people in rural areas and small towns face a combination of obstacles," she concludes.