Sociology of a box to check: thinking about the (de)limitations of the professional and compensatory possibilities of former "disabled students" through the analysis of their recourse to the RQTH.

Summary This dissertation focuses on the transitions to employment of young people with disabilities who, having requested and obtained accommodations during their university studies, have been recognized as "disabled students. The sociological analysis focuses on the issues, during this period, of the use of the Recognition of the Quality of Disabled Worker (RQTH): what happens when it is a question of choosing whether or not to tick this "box" in the "application form(s)" of the Maison Départementale des Personnes Handicapées (MDPH)? This research mobilizes data of various kinds (secondary exploitation of a statistical survey, integration narratives and a national ad-hoc survey) collected in successive stages. The forms of (non-)recourse to the RQTH during these transitions to employment seemed to us to shed new light on the influences of public policies for the compensation of disability on the paths and subjectivities of individuals. The aim was to conduct a sociology of the "reception of disability policies" (Revillard, 2017) and to understand the effects of this on "relationships to working life" (Longo, 2011). How do "professional possibilities" and "compensatory possibilities" articulate themselves? Based on a reasoning by ideal-types, we have developed four profiles of "navigators". The nautical metaphor allows us to represent the individuals in front of their professional horizons. Our results first support the idea of an unequal character of the public policies of compensation of the handicap which require identity prerequisites diversely distributed in the studied population. Secondly, we detect a paradox in that the policies seem to have a more significant "grip" on individuals who do not recognize themselves in them. We consider that there is a discrepancy between the "spirit" of disability policies and the conceptions of disability held by some young people living with capacity limitations.