| Summary: | The emergence of social mediators in some urban areas and public spaces, the way they are recruited and the way they conduct their activity call into question their professional recognition. By having to create their work by and from themselves, from their real-life experience and in an ad hoc way, their professional identity cannot be separated form their personal identity. In such conditions, they represent a special but very emblematic situation, in which personalisation of work leads to the specific problems of institutionalization and professionalization. We will analyze the context in which social mediation emerges and develops, as well as the lack of definition of its missions, the competences it requires, and, finally, the possibility for mediators to plan a career. The ambiguities of such recognition will allow us to outline the narrow ways of an institutionalization towards a new form of professionalism.
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