Subjectivities on the Edge

Abstract

This chapter provides a reflection on subjectivities and the way in which spaces for children and adolescents are appropriated and considered in migration contexts, where these young people have either gone through the process of migration or find themselves in a border context. Here, migration is just another form of mobility, found in the daily discourses and narratives of the subjects who inhabit it. To that end, the study compiled ethnographies of children and adolescents in migration contexts in the city of Tangier, Morocco. The starting point is a reflection on the subjectivity of the author herself, considering her epistemological reflexivity and how her work has conditioned how she looks at and analyzes the mobility of children and adolescents. This article then takes a closer look at how these children are constructed by forms of government that classify them according to the way in which they move through border spaces and their migration trajectories before analyzing how they understand the Tangier port space where the borders come into play. This article concludes with an analysis of their self-perceptions of their mobility through forms of cultural production such as rap music.