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Becoming transnational youth workers : independent Mexican teenage migrants and pathways of survival and social mobility / Isabel Martinez.
LIBRA HD8081.M6 M35 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martínez, Isabel, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Latinidad
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--United States.
- Foreign workers.
- Teenage immigrants.
- United States.
- Foreign workers--Mexico.
- Teenage immigrants--United States.
- Teenage immigrants--Mexico.
- Mexican-American Border Region--History.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexico.
- North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- In the shadows of skyscrapers and ivory towers
- "Giving my family a better future" : familism and interdependence across borders
- "We all come young" : the migration of Mexican independent teenage migrants
- Pushed or jumped? School going, school leaving, and school returning
- From campos to kitchens : becoming immigrant workers
- Between becoming and being adults.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813589794
- 0813589797
- 9780813589800
- 0813589800
- OCLC:
- 1052902026
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