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The urbanization of the world has placed the whole world, in its diversity, more within the realm of the city. Having acknowledged the need to recognize this diversity, the recent debate over the importance, content, political, economic, social and cultural role of the notion of recognition has crystallized around a double challenge: either as a problem of the material redistribution of goods by all subjects (Fraser), or as the active respect for particular identities of sociocultural minorities (Taylor). However, the intensification of the phenomenon of human mobility has created a third invisible social subject in the public space: those excluded from stable and rewarding social relationships such as the homeless, the undocumented or the unemployed. These three types of collective subjects have different objectives and social bases, and the public space is today the scene of multiple «struggles for recognition» (Honneth), respectively, economic struggle, identity struggle and struggle for relationship (Renault). We intend to analyse these three social movements within the dynamics of coexistence in the city and the impacts that they exert on it, and critically reflect on whether and how they contribute to the construction of the common good, viewed from the perspective of «common purposes» (Taylor) and «societal goals» (Honneth). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]