ABSTRACT
This article discusses the activities and forms of engagement developed by the young people from popular neighbourhoods of the Parisian region in their experience of confinement by the pandemic COVID-19, in the spring of 2020. Does the social and urban situation of this youth give it a specificity? What forms and processes of engagement does it develop? From this point of view, what allows us to grasp the health crisis and its management in the popular neighbourhoods? Our results, based on a participatory research with young people, carried out between 2018 and 2021 in ten popular neighbourhoods, show how the health crisis has accentuated and made visible the situations of social inequality and discrimination in these neighbourhoods. They also stress the importance of the solidarity networks that were activated and the diversity of modalities of engagement of these young people, the vast majority of whom are of immigrant origin. © Marie-Hélène Bacquè.