Keywords

• All experts agree that population movements are growing rapidly since eighties. Host countries are trying to erect barriers which push a large part of migrant people in clandestinity. Among these populations
• the category of minors that includes children and adolescents is characterized by a considerable heterogeneity and psychosocial risks particularly serious. If these children are unwanted in most host countries
• nevertheless they should be protected. Thus
• for example in France
• after several years in the system of child protection many of them are denied the stay on the territory and find themselves
• de facto
• in irregular position. On the one hand
• each of them has singular trajectories and life stories
• on the other hand they share the same anonymity and the same existential paradox. These shared aspects are not without consequence in the way they manage to build their adulthood and to establish their own â€
• œ
• place in the worldâ€
• 
• . It would be interesting to analyze the social and clinical issues of these multifaceted challenges